5 November 2003

Panther Script Editor v2.0 features

Much goodness comes to Script Editor with Panther. The application itself now comes in the version 2.0. This version was available as a beta for Jaguar for some time. Now it is final and has some new extras in Panther.

First, there is the Library Window (find it in the Window menu). Here you can bookmark scripting dictionaries you work a lot with. Also opening a dictionary is much faster, as Panther requires much less time building the list of scriptable applications than Jaguar did.

A well hidden feature, that scripters will just love (I do). If you option-select a script from the Script Menu, it will open in Script Editor. Nice.

Finally Script Editor will react to applescript:// links in HTML code. These links will allow the web user to click on a link and some script code will open in a new window in Script Editor. It will not compile and execute the script, so no security issues here. Read Apple's documentation for the details. There is a remark in the documentation, if you're script contains higher unicode characters like'¬' they will break the link. It will simply not work at all.

I updated my scripts to include Script Editor links.

Mac - posted on 11/5/03; 2:38:28 PM - Armin Briegel