In the Photoshop CS2 application folder is a guide to scripting with information on JavaScript,
AppleScript, VisualBasic, and sample scripts if you're interested in making your own.
-Warnings of pitfalls, common mistakes, and
AppleScript shortcomings
The second deficiency in
AppleScript's programming of the Finder is in control of program execution.
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AppleScript has been gaining acceptance as the premier foundation for doing integrated, automated workflow production among publishers, designers, printers, prepress artists, and production professionals around the world," explains Jeff Martin, Apple's senior director of design and publishing markets.
Other features of the Mac OS include its support for the drag, and-drop feature and for
AppleScript. "Drag and drop is a really clean way to make the cut-and-paste feature transparent to users," McCreavy said.
The 500 or so people at Macmillan Computer Publishing create hundreds of helpful books every year, carrying such titles as The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet, Using 1-2-3, Mortal Kombat Fighter's Kompanion, The Tao of
Applescript, Windows for Non-Nerds and Virtual Reality Madness.
Keynote's toolbar gets the customizability feature again, along with a restoration of old transitions and builds, improvements to presenter display and
AppleScript support enhancements.
Two
AppleScript masters show beginners how to use this scripting language to carry out almost any automation task.
The utility also supports
AppleScript and Droplets.
Configurable actions include running an executable, presenting -a popup message, linking to different topics based on platform, running COM methods, sending Apple Events, running a compiled
AppleScript or presenting QuickTime movies.
Tatlin uses the "examinability" of the application data models in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and Now Up-to-Date via the
Applescript interprocess communication language (see Figure 4).