Re: Script Editor - Feature Request
Re: Script Editor - Feature Request
- Subject: Re: Script Editor - Feature Request
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 08:01:41 +0100
At 9:28 PM -0500 05/11/03, David Hoerl wrote:
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For those people who grew up with UNIX shells, and programmed them, it was always great to be able to write status messages to the terminal so you could preflight a script and see what it was going to do before you let it loose.
That was exactly the idea of the designers of Smile in the first place: having something like a Terminal for AppleScript.
Basically, Smile uses two kinds of windows: "script windows" which are like in Script Editor (in Smile you don't work with those). And "text windows" which are AppleScript interpreters. Furthermore the AppleScript interpreter prints its results into regular text windows as well, so it makes quite a consistent development environment.
I think you might appreciate Smile. It's free and available at:
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http://www.satimage-software.com/en/softx.html>
For instance, in Smile you would insert commands such as:
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postit s -- display s in a floating window
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quietmsg(s) -- appends s to Smile's Console
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msg(s) -- appends s to Smile's Console and reveals Smile's Console
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or
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QuickCurve(0, xs, 0) -- plots the list of real "xs" into a curve plot
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Emmanuel
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