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- From: jpeacock@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Jason Peacock)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Can Final Writer do tables?
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 05:21:59 GMT
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- Nhan Nguyen (st82f@bayou.uh.edu) wrote:
- : On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, Ruud Dingemans wrote:
- :
- : Now is ARexx beautiful or what? You sure as hell can't do this on a Mac,
- : AFAIK. If I'd just get cracking on ARexx I might be able to make some
- : macros that people would like, too!
-
- I do believe the Mac now has (as of System 7.5, I think) a scripting
- language called AppleScript (like any of you were surprised at the name).
-
- Like most other aspects of the MacOS, AppleScript has been rigourously
- defined to a very sophisticated level. As an example, most AppleScript
- aware program can show you how to use application specific commands by
- simply asking the program via the AppleScript port.
-
- The following examples are simply illustrations and not actual script
- code that will work if tried. I don't know the exact details of
- AppleScript code.
-
- talk to MicrosoftWord
- help commands
-
- This should return a list of available commands that a script can use
- on MSWord.
-
- talk to MicrosoftWord
- help open
-
- Would return a description and template on how to use the open command.
-
- In addition, AppleScript has many built-in commands that allow the user
- to automate repitive tasks and even provide custom help functions. The
- user can write scripts to open and move windows, draw graphics anywhere,
- not just in a window, and many other things.
-
- Of course, I only spent about 30 minutes going over the features of
- AppleScript about 1.5-2 years ago, but the items described above were
- the ones that stood out most in my head.
-
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