[svn] 978: More changes to Ant scripts.

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Revision: 978<br />Author:   [email protected]<br />Date:     2008-03-27 17:54:17 -0700 (Thu, 27 Mar 2008)<br /><br />Log Message:<br />-----------<br />More changes to Ant scripts.<br /><br />1. They now use the <mxmlc> task (rather than <java>) to compile SWFs such as checkinapp.swf.<br /><br />2. I added comments to explain why the <taskdef> that loads <compc> and <mxmlc> from flexTasks.jar needs to be inside the <target> rather than simply in the <project>. (The reason is that our build process builds flexTasks.jar, so we can't load it until after certain targets have executed.)<br /><br />3. All build.xml files within the 'frameworks' directory are now consistent about the following:<br /><br />a. They define FLEX_HOME.<br />b. They load FLEX_HOME's build.properties file.<br />c. They refer to all files and directories as either ${basedir}/foo/bar (for things inside the subdirectory where the script lives) or ${FLEX_HOME}/foo/bar (for things outside that subdirectory).<br /><br />Modified Paths:<br />--------------<br />    flex/sdk/trunk/build.properties<br />    flex/sdk/trunk/build.xml<br />    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/build.xml<br />    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/airframework/build.xml<br />    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flash-integration/build.xml<br />    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex/build.xml<br />    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/build.xml<br />    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/haloclassic/build.xml<br />    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/rpc/build.xml<br />    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/utilities/build.xml<br />    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/tests/checkinapp/build.xml

Answer 1

I just found the AppleScript documentation in /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Scripting/Documents/. But I don't think it's even accurate. Here's a very simple sample they give:
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"
     filter current layer of the current document using lens blur with options {class:lens blur, radius:13}
end tell
If I enter this in AppleScript Editor and try to compile it, it selects the word "current" and tells me "Expected end of line but found identifier." It doesn't even recognize "filter" as a command. If I just change that 5 to a 4, it works fine in CS4.
Here's one way to run a JavaScript file from AppleScript:
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5" to open file "Path:to:file.jsx"
Of course there's no way to pass any arguments this way, so that greatly limits its usefulness. But perhaps this will be helpful to some people. I'm assuming the JavaScript stuff all works fine, as that seems to be their focus these days.
The really strange thing is that certain things seem to work fine in AppleScripts that are already compiled (using CS4). But if I try to re-save those scripts with CS5 installed, I get errors.