RE: [ANN] Table dialogs
RE: [ANN] Table dialogs
- Subject: RE: [ANN] Table dialogs
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:11:15 +0000
- Thread-topic: [ANN] Table dialogs
Thanks, Shane, Myriad Tables is really cool!
The standard appleScript user interface tools (dialog, alert, choose from list) are good for what they are, but we’ve needed something more flexible and powerful since the early days.
Myriad Tables (MT) is just what the doctor ordered. I’ve been working with early versions for a few weeks now, and I can tell you that it’s just a little more complicated than display dialog or choose from list, but way more powerful.
As soon as I started testing it I came up with numerous uses.
Here’s a few examples:
I have a script that replaces numerous pairs of text strings in a tagged document. Before MT the script had hundreds of lines like this all calling the same handler:
set myText to ReplaceText(textToFind, textToReplaceWith,myText)
And it works great, used every day by several people. But, if we ever needed to change the text replacement strings, it required me to open the script and edit. I tried using a combination of choose from list and two dialogs, but it was too clunky. I tried storing the strings in a text document and editing there, but the users constantly screwed that up.
Myriad tables simply displays a table of all the replacement pairs and the user can add, edit or remove what they need. I expect it will work great.
Another example is that I’m working on a script that lets the user enter multiple showtimes for various events and productions. Using a MT makes it a breeze. When this project is done it will save people hours each week and allow us to do more with their work.
I also use it to check my own scripting. A few days ago I posted a script that had an issue with converting dates to a styled time string.
To check whether my handler was working or not I ran a repeat loop making a 100 versions of the original date and the text from that date, and displayed them side by side. Made it easy to spot the mistakes I’d made in the handlers. When others offered their versions of the same script I ran those through too and was instantly able to verify that they worked. (I’ll post that script later, it’s very short).
It comes with through documentation, a well written dictionary and sample scripts that show you how easy it is to anything from a quick and simple display, to a large and complex table with multiple entry types.
And it’s free.
It’s going to be installed on every mac I use and every mac using my scripts. (Installing is easy, but I may even write an installer script because AppleScript)
Thanks again, Shane!
Keep up the great work!
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