On 4/21/04 13:33, Rex Baldazo wrote >Sorry, I must have missed the email. Unfortunately I'm no Applescript >expert. I just commissioned the article from my author, who doesn't >live in this area or else I'd ask him to present something. > >-----Original Message----- >>[from Harry...] >> >> >>I've been looking for an applescript presenter for several months, to no >>avail. I have asked Rex to present but have not heard back from him. >>
If worse came to worst, I could give a small tutorial on AppleScript. The only problem that I see is that I find AppleScript to be one of the most unlearnable scripting languages I've ever used. <rant> The /concept/ of having a scripting language which was human-language-like so that there would be dialects in languages other than English was a good idea. Imagine writing a program in English which then, when opened by a Finn lookkeedd verryuu Fiinniissh. Unfortunately, this, like other nice ideas (Newton, OpenDoc and the like) never went beyond the original concept, so there is still only one dialect. The result has been a scripting 'language' with very idiosyncratic syntax, and complete chaos from application to application, so that being able to write a script for application A in no way means that it will be easy to write a similar script for application B. </rant> Still, it is possible to learn how to shorten some tediously repetitive tasks with just a little syntax. It's just very hard to take that and do anything else w/o buying a book. Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
