In addition to what you are saying, Richard, i have the feeling that
there is some of the good old "KeyQuencer" ground code behind
Automator...
Todd Higgins wrote:
On Apr 25, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Kurt Kaufman wrote:
Anyone know if Mac 10.4's "Automator" is a collection of
customizable pre-fab Applescripts? As the author of a few Rev
utilities that use Applescript, I'm wondering if Applescript will
continue as before?
...
Applescript will continue on strong as ever. Automator is just a
tool that will help people harness the power of Applescript without
having to learn how to program. Or so the marketing speak goes. ; >
)
From the session I attended at WWDC last year on Automator, it appears
to be merely a point-and-click way to write AppleScript, just like
interface for making scripts that you can use with Flash in leiu of
directly typing, or the point-and-click scripting found in FileMaker
Pro for years (and a bit like an old flow-chart GUI for scripting
graphics apps in UNIX called, if memory serves, AVS, with its
structured inputs and outputs).
Apple's implementation is in some ways more graceful, but the central
concept of making a point-and-click UI alternative for scripting isn't
new.
Just the same, once the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field is turned
up to full volume at Tiger's release, we can expect the lay and even
trade press to momentarily forget the history of scripting
environments and declare that they've seen God.
;)
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