Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 15, Issue 33
Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 15, Issue 33
- Subject: Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 15, Issue 33
- From: Alastair Leith <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 01:45:04 +1100
When Apple hired to make a new iWork suite of applications that had iCloud
compatibility (online user access and multi-user) they dropped a tonne of
stuff.
I asked Keynote team to talk to the Quartz Composer team, which happened in
piste of them being in different cities, but instead of Keynote having more QC
integration, I suggested a bunch of improvements that would have allowed
Keynote with QC to be a very powerful prototyping and app coding tool (like a
modern-day Hypercard with GLSL video in a way) and much smarter presentation
tool. But instead they depreciated existing QC support. They could have left it
and just dropped it from the online iteration, but no, they killed it. And my
animated theme add-on suite I was planning to sell was worthless.
That’s Apple I guess. Some of the best ideas get dumped.
> On 27 Feb 2018, at 8:45 am, Tim Murphy <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> The way the iWork applications work with AS has been a major big-time
> disappointment to me. Everything has either been butchered and deprecated or
> just plain ignored.
> What a shame!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
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>> Today's Topics:
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>> 1. Pages Text Boxes; Text Items; iWork Items (Ed Stockly)
>> 2. Re: Pages Text Boxes; Text Items; iWork Items
>> (Jean-Christophe Helary)
>> 3. Re: Pages Text Boxes; Text Items; iWork Items (Stockly, Ed)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:52:56 -0800
>> From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
>> To: "email@hidden"
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>> Subject: Pages Text Boxes; Text Items; iWork Items
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>> I’m still using Pages 4.1 because I have documents with numerous text boxes
>> identified with names, that are populated via appleScript.
>>
>> None of the more recent versions of Pages allow you to name text boxes, text
>> items or iWork items.
>>
>> Has anyone found a workaround?
>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:32:33 +0900
>> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
>> To: "email@hidden"
>> <email@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Pages Text Boxes; Text Items; iWork Items
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>>> On Feb 26, 2018, at 8:52, Ed Stockly <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> I’m still using Pages 4.1 because I have documents with numerous text boxes
>>> identified with names, that are populated via appleScript.
>>>
>>> None of the more recent versions of Pages allow you to name text boxes,
>>> text items or iWork items.
>>>
>>> Has anyone found a workaround?
>>
>> Aren't the items numbered ?
>>
>>
>> Jean-Christophe Helary
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 19:11:12 +0000
>> From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
>> To: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>,
>> "email@hidden"
>> <email@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Pages Text Boxes; Text Items; iWork Items
>> Message-ID: <D6B99BB4.A3768íemail@hidden>
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>> I think that changes depending on front to back, and users will change
>> that.
>>
>> The one script that has an issue populates several different forms, with
>> the same data.
>>
>> In previous versions, it's a simple matter of placing a text box with the
>> correct name in the right place on the page (with appropriate style for
>> that version).
>>
>> Now it's a mess. The id changes from form to form. Using numbers doesn't
>> work from form to form or even within the same form.
>>
>> I'm trying a workaround using tables, which can be named. Mostly I'm using
>> tables with only one cell.
>>
>> This used to work so well (still does in the earlier version).
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>> On 2/25/18, 7:32 PM, "AppleScript-Users on behalf of Jean-Christophe
>> Helary" <applescript-users-bounces+ed.stockly=email@hidden
>> on behalf of email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Feb 26, 2018, at 8:52, Ed Stockly <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>> I’m still using Pages 4.1 because I have documents with numerous text
>>>> boxes identified with names, that are populated via appleScript.
>>>> None of the more recent versions of Pages allow you to name text boxes,
>>>> text items or iWork items.
>>>> Has anyone found a workaround?
>>>
>>> Aren't the items numbered ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Jean-Christophe Helary
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>> http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune
>>>
>>>
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