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Re: General questions from a non-Applescript coder.
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Re: General questions from a non-Applescript coder.


  • Subject: Re: General questions from a non-Applescript coder.
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:29:58 -0700

On Apr 28, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Michelle Steiner wrote:

On Apr 28, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Christopher Nebel wrote:

An Automator action *can* be written in AppleScript,

Where will that be documented? Will plain AppleScript suffice or will it need AS Studio?


Enquiring minds and all that...

In developer documentation, eventually, but for the moment, read <http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/automator.html>.


Technically, all actions use at least some Studio, but it may be done for you. There are two things you, as an action writer, have to deal with: getting the action's work done, and handling the action's UI. If your action interface is essentially fill-in-the-blanks (or checkboxes, or whatnot), then you can set up all the parameter bindings in Interface Builder, and you don't have to write any code at all for the UI side, Studio or otherwise. If you need some custom behavior (interdependent controls, for instance), then you'll need to write Studio code to deal with that.


--Chris Nebel AppleScript Engineering

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 >General questions from a non-Applescript coder. (From: Shawn Milo <email@hidden>)
 >Re: General questions from a non-Applescript coder. (From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>)
 >Re: General questions from a non-Applescript coder. (From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>)

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