Re: Recording
Re: Recording
- Subject: Re: Recording
- From: Craig <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 23:33:11 -0500
Clark-
On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 9:00 PM, Clark Goble wrote:
___ Rob ___
| QuickTime Player, Tex-Edit Plus, BBEdit, Script Debugger, URL
| Manager Pro (to some degree), and Interarchy v5 are all
| recordable in OS X. I'd guess that there are others.
___
I hadn't notice that about BBEdit. I'm not sure what I'd script QT
Player to do. The other programs I'm not really familiar with. They
aren't significant productivity programs.
Maybe they are not to you, but they are for many others. Be careful
with that paint brush you have.
Of the Apple programs (minus QT Player) none of them are recordable
that I can see. MS Word & Excel have recordable Visual Basic Macros
(and Real Basic?) but not Applescript.
None of the Adobe programs I checked were recordable (Acrobat Reader,
Photoshop, GoLive) AppleWorks isn't either.
Hopefully since Apple is updating a lot of its applications for
Panther this will be added to at least a few. (And honestly a few of
them could have better scripting entirely.)
Applescript is a tool, and understanding how and where to use it helps
a lot. Applescript gets more powerful with each release of OS X. The
apps you are working with have been mentioned on this list many times
and there are lots of good scripting examples for them in the archives.
Grab a few of those and take them apart to see how some pros have used
the tool to get a job done, it's extremely interesting and
enlightening. It has showed me time after time how to thing differently
about thee problem or task I had. That's part of the fun.
Craig
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