Can someone smart tell me what the difference between AppleScript and Automator is under Mac OS X? Both appear to exist to allow the automation of applications, but in different ways. Are they related at all?
Can someone smart tell me what the difference between AppleScript and Automator is under Mac OS X? Both appear to exist to allow the automation of applications, but in different ways. Are they related at all?
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Automator is a set of
Automator is a set of guidelines for how your application exposes its scriptable functions so that they can be detected by the automator and used with the drag-and-drop script maker thing.
This is from the WWDC session description for writing scriptable applications:
Think of ‘Automator’ as the
Think of ‘Automator’ as the Mac GUI equivalent of UNIX command piping. It also allows one to save an Automator action as a compiled script which is available as a Finder contextual menu item. Although this can all be accomplished with applescripts, Automator gets you there much quicker in most cases.
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