Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- Subject: Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 18:14:56 -0500
On 5/4/05 14:30, "Martin Orpen" <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
Well, if someone would perhaps point out to them that Automator support via
AppleScript dictionary gets them three levels of use vs. the Cocoa
frameworks getting them one, *maybe* two, then you'll see more AppleScript.
As well, the number of Automator modules via AppleScript are going to be
larger than the Obj-C ones I think. I don't think you're going to have any
luck with the Obj-C versions with Carbon applications, but I may be wrong
there.
>
> 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?
At least as dumb as FCP 5 still not having any automation support and DVDSP
being less capable as a production tool than iDVD.
john
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