As Scripters Kit

From: macmod (Info-Mac Moderator) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 11:15:48 PST Subject: New AppleScript Kit MOVED OVER PR NEWSWIRE AT 8:16 AM, EDT MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1993. Contact: Emilio Robles Apple Computer, Inc. (408) 862-5671 or Toni Giusti Cunningham Communication, Inc. (408) 982-0400 Apple Delivers New AppleScript Scripter's Kit for Solution Providers New Toolkit Allows Solution Providers to Integrate Off-the-shelf Applications Across Desktops and Networks for Increased Productivity CUPERTINO, California--December 13, 1993--Apple Computer, Inc. today introduced its AppleScript Scripter's Kit, a new software tool that enables solutions providers and end-users to integrate elements of commercial Macintosh software applications across desktops and networks. By providing an easy way to integrate computing processes across different off-the-shelf applications, AppleScript allows users to dramatically boost productivity. The AppleScript Scripter's Kit brings Apple's scripting language to a new class of users. Now, the power and extendibility of AppleScript is available to solutions providers, in-house developers, value-added resellers (VARs), system integrators and end-users. Since April 1993, AppleScript has been available as a software developer's kit for commercial software developers. "AppleScript is a key technology that provides significant added value to customers' existing desktop and networked applications, without costly investment in new operating system technologies," said AppleSoft senior vice president and general manager David Nagel. "Building on the extensible foundation of System 7 and our cross- platform Open Scripting Architecture (OSA), AppleScript is at the heart of Apple's commitment to make computing easier and more focused on users' needs. AppleScript and the OSA provide a clear path towards Apple's universal compound document environment known as OpenDoc." The AppleScript Scripter's Kit includes an enhanced version of Apple's scripting language, AppleScript 1.1, an enhanced script editor, and an interface processor from Software Designs Unlimited, Inc. AppleScript is a system-software-level scripting language that enables users to integrate components of commercial and in-house software applications. The interface builder from Software Designs Unlimited, Inc., allows users to build interfaces for their scripts. Powerful New Automation Features The AppleScript scripting language enables users to tightly integrate the functionality of standard, off-the-shelf applications as well as in-house, enterprise-wide programs to build customized scripts that automate business processes and increase productivity. For example, with AppleScript, a sales department can automatically generate a weekly report that invokes functions from a series of scriptable applications such as Microsoft Excel, FileMaker Pro and QuarkXPress. AppleScript can gather data from one application, process it in another and present …