Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- Subject: Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 20:30:07 +0100
on 4/5/05 19:49, Michelle Steiner at email@hidden wrote:
> On May 4, 2005, at 11:23 AM, has wrote:
>
>> Just thought folk'd like to know there's a nice article by Matt
>> Neuburg on writing AppleScript-based Automator Actions at:
>>
>> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/05/03/automator.html
>
> For someone who has used X-code before, but for those of us who have
> not touched it, it assumes a lot of knowledge that we don't have.
Don't say I didn't warn you in the thread "The future for AppleScript".
The only thing that you can do with Automator if you *only* know AppleScript
is to get it to run an AppleScript.
You need *AppleScript Studio* knowledge to create actions.
And, most alarmingly, application developers can provide Automator support
using obj-c, save themselves the time it takes to create an AS dictionary -
yet still provide some degree of scriptability. This worries me.
I'm keeping my eye on Pages. I bet it gets Automator support before it gets
any AppleScript functions (if ever...). A page layout app that you can't
script - how dumb is that?
--
Martin Orpen
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