Help! where to find universal automator actions?
I've been playing around with Automator lately and suddenly crashed into an error after downloading a new action (create new mail message) from: http://automator.us/
It's saying it won't work because it's not universal.
Does anyone know where to find any versions of these can be found that are universal? I can't believe there are no upgraded versions available after all this time.
My mac is running Snow Leopard (hence posting here) and it's 32 bit only. I can't upgrade to Lion, so even if any are in the app store that doesn't help much. For those of us that are unable (or unwilling) to upgrade, I find removing all download links except to the app store a very bad decision in the customer service department. I used to be able to find such things there.
It depends on the developer. A lot of the actions are on smaller sites or are not regularly updated, and the early versions on your referenced site were written for 10.4 Tiger. There is already a New Mail Message action included in the default Automator installation, but actions can still be found at the bigger download sites such as cnet or macupdate - actions at http://www.automatedworkflows.com/ are also well maintained.
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out of time to learn, I need some help.
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(here?)
Secondly, how long it would take to programme approx 875
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Thanksnicknamesaretaken,
> I think I see what the problem is, but still struggling
to
> get it to work.
Okay.
> I now have:
>
> stop(); {
> on (release)
> this.gotoAndPlay("CS1"); // this is the correct code.
> }
Okay, the on() event handler may not belong here. The on()
and
onClipEvent() functions are an older (Flash 5 era) way to
handle events in
ActionScript. They're still available in Flash 8, and they
work just fine,
even in AS2, but these are applied *directly to* the object
in question; as
in, you click your button to select it, then type into the
Actions panel
while the button is selected. In such a case, no instance
name is needed
for the button (or whatever object). The above code would
have to be
attached to each button -- which really gets old with a large
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inside the on()
function.
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instance name
and assign a function to the Button.onRelease event -- is the
recommended
best practice, and has been available since Flash MX (aka
Flash 6). There's
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*might* have been experiencing the Scenes-related bug I
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stop();
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symbol whose instance name is skipintro_btn (if that object
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object
appears, and tells that timeline to gotoAndStop() at the
named frame label
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Make sense?
> Are there any good Action Script books you could
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the last I can
think of that I enjoyed -- from a general programming
standpoint -- is
Object-Oriented ActionScript For Flash 8 (Friends of ED), by
Peter Elst and
Todd Yard.
> I'm also a bit worried about bug comment. Does it mean
> that I will have difficulty playing this project in
Flash Player
> 9 as it's not written in Action Script 3.0?
You shouldn't have any problems. As long as you use the
frame labels
approach and avoid Scene names, Flash Player 9 will run it
the same as older
Players. Flash Player 9 is the first to feature *two* virtual
machines for
ActionScript. One is the overhauled AS3-lovin' machine; the
other maintains
backward compatability for AS1 and AS2.
> If so, that's a big problem isn't it as people will need
to
> download older versions of Flash Player to view it - or
> I'll need to include older version on the disc.
Right, but you don't have to worry about that. :) The Scenes
issue is
an old one, and it is a big problem, but at least the
workaround is easy
(frame labels).
David Stiller
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http://www.quip.net/blog/
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