ScriptBuilders News

- Updates: Empty Trash 1.0.2, ClockNamer 1.0.1
10:44:14 PM    

Apple: Web Services with AppleScript and Perl

- "Prior to Mac OS X, Perl scripters were forced to telnet to a shell prompt on a remote Unix box to get full access to their favorite language. But now, with its BSD underpinnings and a terminal window, Mac OS X has the same version of Perl you'd find on any Unix system.

Of course, Apple's own scripting language, AppleScript, has been around for years. And a recent release of the language added the ability to use SOAP services, which makes it a nice complement to Perl."
9:21:13 PM    

Frontier 9.0

- Frontier is a powerful Web content management system, built around an object database, scripting language, script editor and debugger, outliner, multi-threaded runtime, integrated HTTP server, distributed computing protocols such as XML-RPC and SOAP. Lots of changes.
5:16:02 PM    

TidBITS: Marketing Software, Part 1

- by Mike Diegel. "So you've built what you think is a great application. All your Mac-using friends think it's cool. Your beta testers tell you that it works. All you've got to do now is post it to VersionTracker and Download.com and you can quit your day job, right?

Don't do it. Not yet, anyway."
4:29:05 PM    

Mac OS X Hints: Set iCal window size and position

- "iCal does not remember the window position properly (at least on my iBook). Until Apple fixes it, here's an AppleScript that you can use to launch iCal with a zoomed (or custom) window position."
2:46:38 PM    

LiveStage Professional 4 coming soon

- LiveStage Professional is a QuickTime authoring application with the ability to converge more than 200 media types to create powerful and engaging interactive digital presentations. Available soon for OS X, here's what Totally Hip has to say regarding AppleScript:

There is probably no better cost saving feature in LiveStage Professional than AppleScript. Developers don't need to know how to program AppleScript; they simply record their actions as they work and an AppleScript is generated on the fly, automating each and every step for the next time they need it. Complex projects can now be churned out in a fraction of the time and by developers with minimal scripting experience.

[more new features of version 4]
1:51:14 PM    

MacScripter.net: Ethan Wilde demos QuickTime and Illustrator scripting

- MacScripter.net has details regarding author Ethan Wilde's appearance at the November AppleScript Pro Sessions in New Orleans.
10:32:41 AM    



Script Tip: Hidden Scripts - John Delacour offers a tip on how to store scripts in the OS X Scripts folder without having them show up in the Script menu. This is handy for storing scripts used by other scripts but never run directly by a user. Read the tip...
8:29:59 AM    

Tex-Edit Plus Beta for OS X 4.3.1b1

- Tex-Edit Plus is a highly scriptable, styled text editor that fills the gap between Apple's bare-bones SimpleText and a full-featured word processor. Changes include a new "Tex-Aid" AppleScript Studio application added to Scripts menu, providing a simple shortcut pallet. Source code for Tex-Aid is included.
8:01:51 AM