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  What Is Automator (and Can It Make Your Life Easier)
Subject:   minor correction
Date:   2005-09-07 15:26:13
From:   has01
> It leverages the power of AppleScript to provide a drag-and-drop workbench for streamlining repetitive tasks.


This isn't completely correct: Automator actually provides three APIs - Cocoa, OSA and stdin/stdout - giving Actions access to a much wider range of implementation languages, system services and third-party resources than are available via AppleScript alone. Anyway, good article.


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  • Matthew Russell photo voodoo
    2005-09-07 16:02:57  Matthew Russell | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [View]

    Good point. I briefly alluded to Cocoa voodoo at one point, but I could have brought that out more (guess I've just noticed that most of the things I ran across are using AppleScript right now). But you're absolutely right: You can leverage just about anything you want, really, because you can call through from within Objective-C/Cocoa...a very nice thing indeed.

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