Re: Recordable? Or not?
Re: Recordable? Or not?
- Subject: Re: Recordable? Or not?
- From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:32:41 -0800
I'll hazard a guess here based on my observations...
I don't have Office '98 on my system, I have Office v.X
I do recall Office '98 being recordable under Mac OS 9.x, and Office v.X is
recordable under Mac OS X
However, if you say that neither script editor is recording actions in
Office '98, I'm guessing that the problem lies with the Classic environment
- Mac OS X script editors can't record Mac OS Classic/9.x applications.
If you upgraded to Office v.X I think your problems would go away.
Alternatively, try running a 'Classic' script editor and see if that can
record the Classic application, or reboot in Mac OS 9.
FWIW, the recorded script I did get from Word v.X was essentially a wrapper
around a MS Visual Basic script:
do Visual Basic " Selection.Font.Color = wdColorRed"
But I guess that's Microsoft for you.
Andrew
:)
On 3/22/03 11:39 AM, "Dave Groover" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I have been having trouble doing what should be allowed. According
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the Danny Goodman's book, Word has been recordable since... well, a
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long time. I have Office 98. I was just trying to record something in
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Word with the AppleScript editor. I opened a new document. I typed in
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some text, bolded it and changed a word to red. I saved and closed
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the document. But nothing showed on my newly recorded Script. Why not?
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I tried this earlier with Smile and a nice tech person told me that
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Smile is not actually recordable. I don't understand this? I am not
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quite a beginner but I am not a real intermediate user yet of AS
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either. I am trying to get back to at least recording some things
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before I try to decipher the AS dictionary.
The recordability or otherwise of smile is irrelevant to it's ability to
record other applications. It's the target application (in this case Word
'98) that's relevant - other than the Classic/X interaction.
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And please don't anyone tell me how easy the dictionary is to read in
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AS. I just figured out how to get Safari to open a new page with a
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URL on the clipboard. Man, such an unintuitve challenge that was.
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Would be nice if Apple put the same simple command in Safari to
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OpenURL as IE and Opera did. Instead of;
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tell application "Safari"
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try -- does document 1 exist?
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get name of document 1
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on error -- document 1 does not exist, create it
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make new document at end of documents
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end try
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set the URL of document 1 to strURL
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end tell
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end if
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Anyway...
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I know the Finder isn't recordable under X (I am running 10.2.4). But
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I thought that Word was. Isn't it? or have I misunderstood something?
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Thanks
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Dave
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