Recordable? Or not?
Recordable? Or not?
- Subject: Recordable? Or not?
- From: Dave Groover <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 14:39:43 -0500
I have been having trouble doing what should be allowed. According
the Danny Goodman's book, Word has been recordable since... well, a
long time. I have Office 98. I was just trying to record something in
Word with the AppleScript editor. I opened a new document. I typed in
some text, bolded it and changed a word to red. I saved and closed
the document. But nothing showed on my newly recorded Script. Why not?
I tried this earlier with Smile and a nice tech person told me that
Smile is not actually recordable. I don't understand this? I am not
quite a beginner but I am not a real intermediate user yet of AS
either. I am trying to get back to at least recording some things
before I try to decipher the AS dictionary.
And please don't anyone tell me how easy the dictionary is to read in
AS. I just figured out how to get Safari to open a new page with a
URL on the clipboard. Man, such an unintuitve challenge that was.
Would be nice if Apple put the same simple command in Safari to
OpenURL as IE and Opera did. Instead of;
tell application "Safari"
try -- does document 1 exist?
get name of document 1
on error -- document 1 does not exist, create it
make new document at end of documents
end try
set the URL of document 1 to strURL
end tell
end if
Anyway...
I know the Finder isn't recordable under X (I am running 10.2.4). But
I thought that Word was. Isn't it? or have I misunderstood something?
Thanks
Dave
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