Re: Pages 2.0 Scripting
Re: Pages 2.0 Scripting
- Subject: Re: Pages 2.0 Scripting
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:35:23 -0800
> The dictionary for Pages 2.0 does a pretty good job of documenting the
> functionality. Note the Pages-specific suites, especially the Pages Text
> Suite. While the Standard and Text suites do appear in the dictionary, this
> is primarily a side-effect. The terminology in the Pages suites should be
> given precedence.
>
> As for charts (and tables), support for those types of objects is somewhat
> limited in this release. Note the add chart and add table commands, similar
> to Keynote's add chart command. These can be used to create objects of these
> types, but there isn't full support for get and set of these objects'
> properties, particularly their underlying data. Because charts and tables are
> graphic objects, their graphic properties can be manipulated as per the Pages
> Graphics Suite.
>
> Pages' scripting model is similar to that of ClarisWorks/AppleWorks, but there
> are differences. Here's a few basic, yet illustrative snippets of my own;
> hope they're useful:
Excellent, thanks. Sorry to hear that we can't get/set data yet.
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