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<p>SUMMARY: PreFab Software releases UI Actions 1.2, a major new version of UI<br />
Actions, bringing "universal attachability" to AppleScript. Version 1.2 is<br />
now a Universal Binary. Download it at <a href="http://PreFabSoftware.com/uiactions/" title="http://PreFabSoftware.com/uiactions/">http://PreFabSoftware.com/uiactions/</a>.</p>
<p>North Andover, MA -- March 8, 2007 -- PreFab Software, Inc. and Bill<br />
Cheeseman today announced the release of version 1.2 of PreFab UI Actions.<br />
UI Actions is now a Universal Binary that runs natively both on Power PC<br />
Macintosh computers and the new Intel Mac Pro, Mac mini, iMac, MacBook Pro<br />
and MacBook.</p>
<p>UI Actions 1.2 contains several new features and improvements. It requires<br />
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or newer, and it supports all of the new GUI Scripting<br />
and Accessibility enhancements introduced by Apple in Tiger.</p>
<p>UI Actions implements "universal attachability" for AppleScript. With UI<br />
Actions, you attach an AppleScript script to a native Mac OS X application.<br />
)From then on, the script will be triggered automatically every time the user<br />
performs the actions you specify in the target application. A UI Action<br />
script can respond to all manner of user actions, such as opening or<br />
closing a window, selecting a menu item, editing a text field and many<br />
others.</p>
<p>PreFab UI Actions is universal. While Apple's Folder Actions and Digital<br />
Hub Actions are specialized tools that let your scripts respond when the<br />
user performs narrowly defined tasks, UI Actions goes much further. It<br />
allows any accessible user interface element in any application to trigger<br />
a script in response to any supported user action. UI Actions opens up<br />
whole new worlds of possibilities.</p>
<p>Download a free, full-featured 30-day trial version of UI Actions 1.2 now<br />
at PreFabSoftware.com/uiactions/. This trial version will work even if you<br />
tried an older version of UI Actions more than 30 days ago.</p>
<p>UI Actions 1.2 is a free upgrade for licensed users. The price for new<br />
users is $35, with quantity discounts available.</p>
<p>Selected new features and Bug Fixes in UI Actions 1.2:</p>
<p>* Updated Automator actions are now incorporated into the UI Actions helper<br />
application, where they are automatically recognized by Automator. The<br />
separate installer for Automator actions for UI Actions is no longer needed.</p>
<p>* New AppleScript properties now allow your UI action scripts to get the<br />
'current UI action' and the 'current UI action script' without knowing<br />
their names in advance. This makes it possible to write generic UI action<br />
scripts that can get the 'affected UI element' and other information<br />
regarding any target application without revising the script.</p>
<p>* UI Actions can now filter UI action scripts by the affected UI element's<br />
description, help and value Accessibility attributes, in addition to the<br />
existing role, subrole, role description and title filters.</p>
<p>* Exported UI Actions Set files are now assigned a unique Uniform Type<br />
Identifier, and they are indexed for Spotlight searches. For example, you<br />
can search your system for UI Actions Set files containing UI actions that<br />
target a named application or that attach a named UI action script.</p>
<p>* UI Actions works around a Mac OS X 10.4 AppleScript issue that caused the<br />
'count' command to return 1 even when there were multiple UI actions or UI<br />
action scripts attached to a target application.</p>
<p>PreFab Software, Inc. has unmatched experience controlling the GUI via<br />
scripts, releasing PreFab Player in 1994 with continued sales and support<br />
today for Mac OS 9 and earlier. In 2003, PreFab entered the world of Mac OS<br />
X with PreFab UI Browser, a popular utility to support Apple's new GUI<br />
attachability" for AppleScript, followed in 2004. Download fully-functional<br />
30-day trial versions at <a href="http://PreFabSoftware.com/" title="http://PreFabSoftware.com/">http://PreFabSoftware.com/</a>. UI Browser and UI<br />
Actions are based on Bill Cheeseman's Cocoa framework for working with<br />
Apple's accessibility API.</p>
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