Re: Still cannot record anything in Script Editor
Re: Still cannot record anything in Script Editor
- Subject: Re: Still cannot record anything in Script Editor
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:25:05 +0100
At 11:57 +0100 UTC, on 1/17/03, Barthold Van Acker wrote:
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I've now just installed Script Editor 2.0 (beta) on Mac OS X 10.2.3 and
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still I cannot record anything. I push the "Record" button, execute a
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lot of actions and nothing gets recorded in the script. The script
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remains empty. Help!!!
Welcome to the difference between scriptability and recordability ;) They are
not the same.
Most applications are scriptable, but unfortunately hardly any application is
recordable (I think BBEdit is one of the few exceptions[*] on Mac OS X).
To script an application, you open its AppleScript dictionary (from Script
Editor's File menu) and try to read it (not everey dictionary is that easy to
read) to find out what it understands - what you can ask it; what you can
tell it.
To learn the language called AppleScript _itself_, go to
<
http://www.apple.com/applescript/resources/>. The main document is the
AppleScript Language Guide. Consider it your reference manual. (It is dated,
there are probably examples in it that only apply to pre-Mac OS X. But it is
the most up to date ther eis and does explain the language nonetheless.)
Bill Brigg's, one of the regulars on this list, published a very nice
AppleScript primer, at <
http://maccentral.macworld.com/columns/briggs.shtml>.
A great way to start to learn scripting.
HTH
[*] Ooh! That made me think of a feature request for Script Editor 2.0. How
about making it easy for scripters to find which applications are on board
that are recordable? Maybe in the "Open Dictionary" dialog. Add a "record
button" or something like that? Or add a "recordable" column with checkmarks.
Or a live filter "show only recordable applications". Or make it a separate
menu item. Whichever you prefer ;)
Are you listening Tim B? ;)
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <
http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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