How do I batch-render LiveType files?

Question

I've been trying to find a way to render a batch of LiveType files, but so far have been unsuccessful.
The closest I've come is the applescript below, which I was going to combine with a shell script to call it on each of the files in a directory in turn, but the script won't wait until the file finishes rendering before going on.
Am I missing something? Is there a known way to batch render files? Or can someone help me complete the script below?
-- LiveType should be opened with the file to be rendered before this script is called
-- Focus LiveType
tell application "LiveType"
activate
end tell
-- Render the open file
tell application "System Events"
tell process "LiveType"
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "File"
tell menu "File"
click menu item 17
end tell
end tell
end tell
tell window "Save"
click button "Save"
end tell
end tell
end tell
-- If this script would wait until the rendering is done, then the block below would close the finished movie window. Since it doesn't wait, it presses "cancel" on the rendering progress indicator. Doh.
tell application "System Events"
tell process "LiveType"
tell window 1
click button 0
end tell
end tell
end tell
Dual 1.8GHz G5 (4-slot RAM model) Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Answer 1

HI(Bonjour)!
As I know, Livetype is not "applescriptable". He's
not in the dictionnary list in script editor.
So I do not think that you can go further than open
this application via finder, who is
"applescriptable".
Michel Boissonneault
LiveType is GUI-scriptable. See the code above, which works except for not waiting for actions to be completed before going on. More on GUI-scripting is here:
http://www.apple.com/applescript/uiscripting/index.html
Unfortunately, the docs aren't very long. I've found AppleScript to be the most difficult "scripting" language to learn. I'm still left without a solution to the problem, though. There's got to be a way to make the applescript solution work.