Re: Automator in OS 10.4 (Tiger)
Re: Automator in OS 10.4 (Tiger)
- Subject: Re: Automator in OS 10.4 (Tiger)
- From: Takaaki Naganoya <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:12:27 +0900
On 04.6.29 9:54 AM, "Brett Kirksey" <email@hidden>
wrote:
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On Monday 28 June 2004 at 15:39-0700, Bob Stern wrote:
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> Can anyone expand on the . . . Automator feature of OS 10.4?
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I'm interested in this as well. When I saw this new feature, my
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first reaction was fear that this could be a different
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automation technology Apple will be developing instead of
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AppleScript. I hope Apple does not drop AppleScript in favor of
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a more "user friendly" GUI app.
There is a few information about Automator. Especially in Japan :-).
It seems that there is no "AppleScript" marketing message in WWDC keynote.
AppleScript is not the only Inter aplication communication (IAC) technology.
AppleScript is one of them.
We can find it in Apple Speakable Items. It seems to use AppleScript and
XML-based UI control system.
iTunes and the other i-applications communicates by using XML-files. If
iPhoto fetch iTunes' jukebox data list, they doesn't use AppleScript but use
XML file transaction.
Sal Soghoian said that "i-apps communicates using AppleScirpt each other".
It is partly true but partly (maybe almost of them) not true.
I had been thinking about meta-data file system in Mac OS X 10.4. I thought
some apps will communicate by not using AppleEvent but using XML data
exchange.
So, I thought that "tell document clause without telling application" will
be appear in Mac OS X 10.4.
tell document "iTunes Library.xml"--without telling any application
set aList to every song list
end tell
It will be speedy than using AppleEvent.
Takaaki Naganoya
email@hidden
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