Hi Esther. When you interact with an action in Leopard's automator,
you get a number of things. First you see a disclosure triangle.
Next, is the action's name. This is the thing you can control click
on to get the context menu. Then there is a close button, which
removes the action from the work flow. If the afore mentioned
disclosure triangle is collapsed, that's all you get. If it's
expanded, you get all the various settings of the action. At the
bottom, there are also three check boxes, results, options, and
description. I haven't played a lot with these yet, but I do know
that description, brings up the same description that you see in the
actions library.
Darcy
On 8-Dec-07, at 12:16 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi Darcy,
This is a really useful tip to reorder Automator actions, but I
think that it only
applies to Automator in Leopard. Do you hear the name of the
Automator
action that you've selected announced? Because under Tiger, the only
place
that you can move to apart from the elements of the action, is the
button to
delete, and you need to use VO-keys+H to hear "Remove this Action".
Cheers,
Esther
On Dec 07, 2007, at 06:26PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hi everyone. One of the things that has really been annoying me
about
automator since I started playing with it, is that I didn't know how
to move actions around. Like for example if you forgot an action, I
didn't know how to add it in to the middle of a work flow. The help
says you do it with drag and drop, but I couldn't make that work with
VO. There is however another way to do it. If you get the mouse to
the title bar of the action you want to move, you then do a control
click, and a context menu appears. There are move up and move down
options. Note that you can't use the VO mouse click command, you've
got to use the control key and your mouse button.
Darcy
