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- Script Tools 1.3.6
- Copyright © 1993-1996
- Mark Alldritt All Rights Reserved
-
- This package contains a series of AppleScript additions which add functionality
- to the AppleScript language.
-
- Choose Folder This command presents a standard file selection
- dialog which allows the user to select a folder.
-
- Choose New File This command presents a standard file selection
- dialog permitting the user to name a new file.
-
- Choose Several Files This command presents a modified standard file
- selection dialog box allowing the user to choose
- several files at one time.
-
- Choose Several Folders This command is similar to Choose Several Files
- except that it permits the selection of folders
- instead of files.
-
- Get Default Folder
- Set Default Folder These two commands allow your scripts to get and
- set the default folder and volume used in Choose
- File and Folder commands.
-
- Shutdown Shuts down and optionally restarts the Macintosh
-
- Compile Regular Expression
- Match Regular Expression
- Substitute Regular Expression
- These three commands allow you to perform text
- pattern matching operations within AppleScript.
-
- openFile, closeFile, createFile, createFolder, deleteFile
- renameFile, exchangeFile, moveFile
- readFile, writeFile, writeString
- getFileLength, lengthenFile
- getFilePosition, positionFile
- changeFileOwner
- This series of commands allows your AppleScript
- scripts to manipulate files.
-
- List Processes, Get Process,
- Get Foreground Process,
- Get Current Process This series of commands allows you write scripts
- that manipulate running applications.
-
- List Screens Obtains a list of the display screens attached
- to the Macintosh.
-
- Speak, List Voices, Get Voice
- This series of commands allows you to write
- AppleScript scripts which use the Apple Speech
- Manager to say text messages.
-
- Get Gestalt Accesses Gestalt information
-
- The package also contains some example AppleScript scripts which illustrate
- the use of these commands.
-
-
- Requirements:
-
- You must have System 7 or later and AppleScript 1.0 or later installed on your
- Macintosh to make use of the software in this package. A Word Processor
- capable of reading MS Word 5 format files is required to display the
- documentation (you can also use the Open Dictionary command in the AppleScript
- Script Editor to view a breif descrition of each Script Tools command).
- Apple's Speech Manager is required to use the Speak, List Voices, and Get
- Voice commands.
-
-
- * * * This package does NOT contain the AppleScript software * * *
- * * * This package does NOT contain the Speech Manager software * * *
-
-
- Using & Copying Script Tools:
-
- Script Tools is freeware for personal use. Please feel free to distribute
- Script Tools to friends and colleagues. However, Script Tools may not appear
- as part of any promotional offer or commercial product without the author's
- expressed written permission. Commercial re-distrbution licences are available
- at a modest price through Late Night Software Ltd.
- When distributing Script Tools, please distribute the entire package as you
- received it.
-
-
- Installation:
-
- To install Script Tools copy the contents of the Additions folder to the
- Scripting Additions folder within the Extensions folder in your System Folder.
-
-
- Upgrading:
-
- Script Tools 1.3 introduces changes which will effect your existing scripts.
- The definition of the reply record returned by the Choose New File command has
- been changed. The name returned field has been changed to filename returned.
- This change was made to avoid terminology conflicts with StuffIt Deluxe.
-
-
- Version History:
-
- Version 1.3.6 October 29, 1996
- - Corrected an oversight by including the File IO scripting addition from the
- commercial LNS Scripting Additions package. This version of File IO changes
- the names of all the commands to avoid terminology conflicts with the word
- file.
-
- Version 1.3.5 November 23, 1995
- - Added "starting at" parameter to all choose commands in the Choose Files
- & Folders scripting addition. This allows System 7.5 users to indicate
- an initial folder for all file and folder prompts.
- - Reinstanted the choose folder command as "LNS choose folder" since it now
- offers more functionality than Apple's choose folder command
- - Corrected a problem with the Processes scripting addition which prevented
- the use of the List Processes, Get Front Process and Get Current Process
- commands in the Script Editor (it has always worked in Script Debugger).
-
- Version 1.3.4 September 20, 1995
- - Released updated versions of the Choose Files & Folders, Processes, List
- Screens and Regular Expressions additions. These updates come from the
- commercial version of Script Tools (known as the Late Night Software
- Scripting Additions), and correct a number of bugs. There are also a
- small number of enhancements to the Regular Expressions scripting
- addition.
- - The Choose Folder command has been removed to avoid confusion with the
- Choose Folder command provided by Apple with AppleScript 1.1. Note that
- the Choose Folder event handler is still present, but the dictionary
- entry has been removed. This means that your existing scripts will
- continue to compile and run, but the command will be displayed as
- «event ScTlstdD».
-
- Version 1.3.3 Never Released
-
- Version 1.3.2 October 7, 1994
- - Corrected an error in the Substitute Regular Expression example presented
- in the Script Tools Reference.
-
- Version 1.3.1 May 1994
- - Corrected a memory management problem in the Regular Expressions Addition
- - A problem with the Speak command where it would speak the only the first
- 255 characters of any string passed to it has been corrected.
- - Updated me E-mail address
-
- Version 1.3 September 1993
- - Addition of the Create Folder command
- - Change terminology for the Choose New File command to avoid a conflict with
- StuffIt Deluxe
-
- Version 1.2 September 1993
- - Addition of the Speak, List Voices, Get Voice, Get Gestalt, Rename File,
- Exchange File, Move File, List Processes, Get Process, Get Current Process,
- Get Foreground Process and List Screens commands
- - Corrected a bug in the Create File command which limited path names to 63
- characters. The limit is now 255 characters
- - New example scripts for some of the new commands
- - Addition of the gestalt Selector Lib file which defines all the Gestalt
- selectors documented in Inside Mac VI
- - Updated documentation now describes all the ScriptTools commands
-
- Version 1.1 July 1993
- - Addition of the Shutdown, Regular Expression and File IO Additions to the
- package
- - Addition of new example scripts
-
- Version 1.0 June 1993
- - First public release of Script Tools
-
-
- Contact Information:
-
- Please send all registrations, comments, questions or suggestions to me at
- the following address:
-
- Mark Alldritt
- Late Night Software Ltd.
- 1571 Deep Cove Road
- North Vancouver, B.C.
- CANADA V7G-1S4
-
- Voice: (604) 929-5578
- FAX: (604) 929-4961
- E-Mail: alldritt@wimsey.com
- WWW: http://www.latenightsw.com/
-