AppleScript support, is it coming?

AppleScript support would make things like CodeKit work with Firefox. (http://incident57.com/codekit/faq.php)

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Applescript support?

The KB article about what is coming in the next 6 months lists "Improvements to AppleScript support" for Numbers 3.0. AppleScript Editor tells me Numbers 3.0 is unscriptable. So by "improvements to AppleScript support" does Apple mean "Bringing back Applescript support" or am I missing something? Is there any AppleScript support in Numbers 3.0 now?

Hello
Note that the said article [1] states nothing about any improvements to AppleScript support in Pages v5 and yet the existing AppleScript support in Pages v5 is reportedly miserable one, which lacks the decent objects model and decent methods to manipulate them. It would suggest the degree of "improvements to AppleScript support" in Numbers v3.
Another thing to note is that iToy platform does not support AppleScript at all and thus implementing extensive scripting support in Numbers for Mac would contradict their obssessed scheme to have a common (divisor) software for both platforms. It would suggest the AppleScript support in Numbers v3 would never be better than in Numbers v2 at the most which itself is very limited to say the least.
After all, it seems quite clear to me that Apple has effectively killed iWork for Mac by degenerating it into iToy version. From my experience I no longer see any future in this programme suite as productivity work horse.
[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6049
Just my thought,
H

Still no Automator / Applescript Support in iWorks 09

Hi everybody,
i find it extremly annoying that there are still no iWork Actions in Automator nor is there any native Applescript Support ! Come on Apple, even the bad guys at Microsoft do have Automator actions in their Office 2008 product. I bought iWork 08 i will not buy iWork 09. Am i the only person who would like to have support for automator and applescript build into the products ?
cheers
Ronny

No, M$ feels they have to lead you by the hand. Apple knows there users are brighter and can do many things themselves.
What are they going to make? How do they know what automator actions will be needed by the community until the scripting is out and available, And they see how we end up using the technology.
Perfect example, they didn't introduce all 350+ functions available in XL in the numbers 1.0 version. They released about 150, then listened to the community to see what we wanted most. THEN they let their engineers go on those points, not WASTING their time and money creating stuff that nobody needs, or only 5% need. Now we have ~100 more functions, and even a new data type, duration, that XL doesn't have. why? because many people were trying to use Numbers to keep track of things like blood pressure logs, jogging logs, etc...
Another real world example, college campus', Believe it or not the best designers of campuses do not put sidewalks in except for around the buildings themselves, not between them. Because they cannot predict what class patterns the students will end up having, or what habits they, as a group, will develop. They wait till about a year later, see where the grass has been worn down to paths and make sidewalks over those paths.
This is classic design paradigms when you have a random, unpredictable user base that could require almost anything from you. Let them start by designing to fit their needs, then make official releases that take those concepts one step further and completely debugged and up to your standards.
Just my second set of two cents,
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AppleScript support broken in CS5!

Following the 'Changes to Photoshop CS5 and Applescript' thread. I'd like to emphasis that AppleScript support is way broken in CS5.
We have compiled scripts which fail to execute properly. Once this happens, every AppleScript command then fails including trying to compile new commands using the script editor.
This breaks our application which was working great for years on CS3 and CS4.
What can be done?

To reproduce the issue :
1. Place an "image.tif" on your desktop
2. Open another image in Photoshop
3. Run the following script
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"
activate
set masterDocument to current document
open file ((path to home folder as string) & "Desktop:image.tif")
height of masterDocument
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Applescript support for future CS

Hi,
I was asked by a customer if Applescript is going to be still supported in the next CS versions (starting from CS5).
As Adobe is focusing more and more on Flex/AS3 for extensions, the question has made sense to me. So I ask here.
Do you have any infos on that topic ? Will Applescript be supported for ever, is it planned to be abandoned ?
Loic

I would love to see Applescript support within Bridge, as I need to integrate Bridge, Filemaker, BBEdit, and OmniPlan into a start to finish workflow system. Javascript just doesn't cut it as it relates to file handling/manipulation.
Kurt Jones
[email protected]

Please, can Apple give explanations about dropping Applescript support for Pages 13!!??? It is paramount, please do something to fix it asap!!!

Please, can Apple give explanations about dropping Applescript support for Pages 13!!??? It is paramount, please do something to fix it asap!!!

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AppleScript support for Bridge

We have quite an investment in very mature workflows built using Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop that are driven by AppleScript. As one of the advance testers for CS2 deployment in the company, I can already imagine several things that Bridge might bring to the party... If only it would play nice in our AppleScript environment.
Here's my vote for AppleScript support in Bridge!
Mark Leslie
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Kurt Jones
[email protected]

Still no applescript support?

Last version of numbers was woefully slower than Excel.
There was no applescript support either.
What's the point in having a flashy Office suite if you cannot automate any of your workflow?
The mac version of Excel 2008 on the other hand discontinued its VBA support and
has included a handicapped applescript support. Its Microsoft's way of saying -
"In Office, You can PLAY the whole DAY on your mac, but you gotta SWITCH to a PC if you want to get your WORK done!"
I have not tried Number 09 yet. would anyone know if Numbers 09 has applescript support?
Apple has been seducing people to switch to mac by advertising its flashy GUI but when it comes to getting office work done, we have to switch back to windows and MS Office?

would anyone know if Numbers 09 has applescript support?
Yes, it does.
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IPhoto 08 & AppleScript - support for set rating?

I am considering upgrading iPhot from 06 to 08..
So I don't have 08.
Can anyone confirm whether or not the AppleScript support has been improved to allow for setting the Rating of photos via AppleScript?
Thanks!
Steve

Steve:
Still no rating support via AS. I cannot find anything new in the AS dictionary since the latest edition. Perhaps with Leopard???

Dropping Applescript support for Pages

apple new suite is grate!, but as it does not have Applescript support for Pages I can no longer use my citations tools and that makes pages '13 useless for me. Are you going to fix that at any time soon?

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
Hard to add AppleScript support for things that simply are not there.
True. However, if you look at the Applescript dictionary for Pages '09, most of the objects are still there in the UI in Pages 5 even though there is no way of scripting them. It seems there simply was no time to get them into the scripting dictionary. The citation tools of Guchi922 may not be supported, however.
If Apple implements all the objects they can in Pages 5' scripting dictionary, another question arises: Will there be much compatibility with scripts written for Pages '09, and there I do not dare being an optimist.

Many problems and Apple Support isn't coming up with answers

Bought an apple tv yesterday. Am not happy.
I was on the phone with a tech for 2 hours yesterday. He had to guide me through upgrading it's software. But he couldn't resolve the problem I have with renting a movie on apple tv. Had me send an email to support!!!!!
Pictures and music sync and work fine. What doesn't is this:
1. Attempting to play a purchased tv show (sync'd from iTunes) on apple tv, after I select the tv show on the apple tv interface, apple tv gives me the following message "apple tv is not authorized to play this content."
2. Apple TV does not allow me to rent movies, it gives me an error message that it does not recognize my apple id or password. I assure your, after many tries with the tech rep on the phone, I know I didn't type it in wrong.
3. Apple TV is not able to access iTunes to authorize sync'ing a movie I rented on iTunes. I don't think this is even sych'ing. Please don't tell me that iTunes rented movies are not enabled to be sync'd (not a feature?).
4. Apple TV searches on YouTube gives the error message "content not found cannot communicate with YouTube please try again later."
Apple TV does play trailers for the movies available to rent. I expect this means it is able to download this off the internet.
So anyone want to try to beat apple's supports next 24 hour window for suggestions. It will be very much appreciated.
Other details:
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iMac sunflower OSX 10.3.9 (yes I know its old (5 years), but it still works fine - directly connected to airport via cat5a ethernet connection, no airport )
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I'm in NY with a USA apple id.
Computer was purchased and used in the UK before I moved back to the USA
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I had such a strange experience.
I bought 2 160GB ATV's to replace my original 40GB. One worked, right out of the box using wireless.
The other, using wired Ethernet couldn't connect to Apple store to rent movies as described in many posts.
I tried putting it on wireless. I tried removing WEP. I downloaded the newest update. I reset the machine by taking out the power for 1/2 hour and then coming back.
I gave up after 2 hours.
I took it to the apple store today and replaced it and the new one worked right out of the box in wireless mode. Go figure.
Apple support was useless.
--Jeffrey

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OS/X RDP client feature request - Applescript support

The new OS/X RDP client is very nice overall, but it can't be easily scripted. You can get most of the way there using OS/X UI scripting:
tell application "Microsoft Remote Desktop"
activate
tell application "System Events"
set frontmost of process "Microsoft Remote Desktop" to true
tell process "Microsoft Remote Desktop"
keystroke "f" using {command down}
keystroke "a" using {command down} -- select all
key code 51 -- delete
keystroke item 1 of argv --search query
keystroke tab
key code 126 -- up
key code 125 -- down
key code 36 --enter
end tell
end tell
end tell
But UI scripting is brittle. For example, the recent update to the RDP client pops up a dialog box announcing the new changes - that breaks the UI scripting. You have to launch the app and clear the dialog box before the UI scripting starts working again.
It would be much simpler and far more reliable if the OS/X RDP client supported Applescript to both list desktops and to connect to a desktop.

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Thanks for the feedback and I will forward your concern to the product team.
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Why is there not applescript support in iWork '13?

I have workflows that used to interface with iWork documents through applescript and now there is no support. Why would this be done? Is there a new script for iWork to get these working again. Without outside interface iWork is useless to me.

Until Apple adds it back, you can use Pages 4. It should still be on your machine in Applications/iWork.
Tell Apple you want this via
http://www.apple.com/feedback

Applescript Support for Airplay?

Does anyone know if there is direct support for controlling Airplay speakers in iTunes via Applescript?
I know there are hacks to select the desired Airplay speaker using keypreses and manipulation of the speakers via the iTunes UI. However, this isn't a great way to do it, as the ordinal references to the UI elements can change with each iTunes update, and the context you are in (e.g. Album list view, or tracklist view) can affect the ordinal reference of the Airplay button too.
An Applescript one liner would be nice to control Airplay speakers if the command is being called from the osascript utility.
Any suggestions welcome. Thanks!

Apart from the hacks you mention, I don't know a way to script iTunes' Airplay choice.
However, Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil is scriptable - so if you use it to grab the iTunes output you can direct the sound where you wish using AppleScript.
Not ideal, but it does work.

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