Workflows can now be re-saved between template types, such as from an applet to a service, or from a service to a print plug-in. For more accurate testing, applets opened in the AppleScript Editor can now be executed independently of the editing environment.Īutomator in Lion combines a streamlined easier-to-use interface, with new actions focused on digital content creation and the preparation of materials for use on iOS devices.
Targeted scripts are excellent for quick development as they do not require the use of tell blocks or using terms clauses. In addition, the AppleScript Editor now has the ability to globally target a script to a specific application through a new optional “tell application” popup menu. New for AppleScript Editor is a template menu, containing a variety of useful script templates, including scripts for creating file processing droplets, Aperture import actions, Mail rule actions, and iChat message responders. Accordingly, applets can now display custom interfaces, such as progress windows, programmatically, taking advantage of the standard Cocoa interfaces available in the OS. The AppleScript Editor can now create and edit Cocoa-AppleScript applets that provide direct access to the Cocoa frameworks from within their AppleScript code, by using the AppleScript/Objective-C bridge first introduced in Snow Leopard. The focus of AppleScript in Lion is about bringing the power of AppleScript/Objective-C to the desktop.Ĭocoa-AppleScript Applets.
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