Re: Automator in OS 10.4 (Tiger)
Re: Automator in OS 10.4 (Tiger)
- Subject: Re: Automator in OS 10.4 (Tiger)
- From: Brennan <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:53:30 +0200
On 28/6/04 at 21:48, David Weiss <email@hidden> wrote:
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I think this will help:
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http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/automator.html
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It does not replace AppleScript at all. In fact it uses AppleScript.
How do you get that? There's no mention of Applescript on that page.
I presume it's Apple events underneath, with something like Photoshop's
actions palette on top. It's not at all clear whether applescript gets a
look in.
I quote:
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Automator contains a library of Actions. Each Action is
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designed to perform a single task, such as finding linked
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images in a Web page, renaming a group of files or creating a
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new event in an iCal calendar. Actions from the Automator
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library are added in sequence to a Workflow document. Each
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Action in the Workflow corresponds to an individual step that
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you would normally do to accomplish your task. The results of
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one action are seamlessly passed to the next action.
The question is: Can we make our own actions, or are we restricted to
building the higher level 'workflows' from the built-in ones?
Presumably these actions are application-specific, in the manner of
'dictionaries'. That means that Automator is only as useful as the third
party developers will allow it to become.
I'm hoping that we can make actions using Applescript; That there is a
special scripting interface for input and output (akin to the special
handlers used by droplets or folder actions).
Chris Nebel, can you let any beans out of the bag?
Brennan
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