I agree with your assessment of AutoIT and add my endorsement. However, it works in kind of a "playback mode" where the interface steps get executed on the active document. This is good for one-off tasks where you want to mimic what happens in the interface. With ExtendScript/FrameScript, you work with commands that can not only work on the active document, but on invisible documents that the script opens, saves, and closes for you. This is advantageous if you have a task to perform on all of the document sin a book. I would consider AutoIT and FrameMaker scripting programs to be complementary.
Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-366-4017 **NEW** rick at frameexpert.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:10 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Script to convert tables to paragraphs And the free editor that comes with it provides autocompletion and context-sensitive help. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 On 26-Nov-13 4:27 PM, Jim Owens wrote: AutoIT is a powerful scripting language, and it comes with good documentation. It's intended to act as a surrogate for a human, by detecting screen or window activity and sending mouse or keyboard responses, but it's also very good for general-purpose programming. It includes the ability to compile your AU3 program to EXE, so that you don't have to start up the scripting environment to run the script. On 2013-11-26 08:10, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: Attached is an AutoIt script for this. AutoIt is a free scripting language for Windows. It's very easy to write AutoIt scripts for easy things like typing shortcut keys. You have to download and install AutoIt in order to run this. Below is the script as well, but it has to be in a text file with a .AU3 extension in order to run it. You can see how simple it is. And I added a lot of comments to make it easier to understand. If you need more info, let me know. Maybe one day I will get into ExtendScript, but AutoIt is so much easier and more pleasant to use that it's worth considering. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 ; this script converts tables to text ; find the desired table once, before running the script Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) ; this sets the title match to be anywhere in the window title Dim $max Dim $x = 1 $max = InputBox("","How many tables?","10") WinActivate(".fm") ; this activates the window that has .fm in the title bar (which may be hidden) WinWaitActive(".fm") While $x <= $max Send("^+f") ; presses CTRL+SHIFT+f to find next Sleep(100) ; pause 100 milliseconds - you may need to increase this time if you have a slow computer Send("!tvc") ; presses ALT+t,v,c to convert the table to text Sleep(100) ; pause 100 milliseconds - you may need to increase this time if you have a slow computer $x = $x + 1 WEnd ---------------------- On 26-Nov-13 12:35 PM, Yves Barbion wrote: Hi group I'm looking for a script which does the following: 1. Find tables with a specific table tag, for example "graphic_table". 2. Convert those tables to paragraphs (row by row). Anyone? Thanks in advance -- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20131126/8b9cb5cb/attachment.html>
