Hi Orin, On Sat, February 09, 2008, at 09:12AM, Orin wrote: >Hi all, > >Automator is kind of confusing to learn on my own, can anyone tell me >how to do this?
There was some discussion about this topic back in November and December, where Jane and Darcy were experimenting with similar projects. I'm going to point you to one of my posts from that time in the Mail archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg23161.html This was my first attempt to explore automator workflows and to think about ways to describe how this works in VoiceOver. In this post, i constructed a simple Automator workflow to add files to iTunes, and tried to describe how to navigate through different parts with VoiceOver. I'm sure people could write better descriptions of this, and there are list members who are far more familiar with Automator than I am. Another shortcoming is that I am working in Tiger, and the labeling, buttons, etc. for VoiceOver is much better under Leopard, so it should be much easier to learn Automator if you're running Leopard. A second difference is that I believe that instead of associating and grouping actions under application names like "iTunes", "Finder", "TextEdit", etc. as I listed, in Leopard the categories are changed to "Music & Audio", "Flies & Folders", etc. Just as with AppleScripts, you can either just "run" an Automator workflow (with Command+R) or save it (as a plug-in, in the case of Automator), so that it becomes a menu option (that you can also probably assign a shortcut to with the Keyboard Shortcuts Menu under Systems Preferences). In the linked post that I gave, I only "ran" the Automator action. Hope that someone else more knowledgeable responds, but this should get you started. I haven't done much with this since then, so your questions are probably best addressed to other list members. Cheers, Esther
