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PreFab UI Actions 1.0

"Universal Attachability" for AppleScript

 

North Andover, MA -- October 4, 2004 -- PreFab Software, Inc. and Bill Cheeseman are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0 of their new product, PreFab UI Actions.

UI Actions implements "universal attachability" for AppleScript. With UI Actions, you attach an AppleScript script to a native Mac OS X application. From then on, the script will be triggered automatically every time the user performs the actions you specify in the target application. A UI Action script can respond to all manner of user actions, such as opening or closing a window, selecting a menu item, editing a text field and many others.

UI Actions requires Mac OS X 10.3 Panther or newer.

Download a free 30-day trial version of UI Actions 1.0 now at prefabsoftware.com/uiactions/.

The introductory price for UI Actions is $25. Starting December 1, 2004, the regular price of $35 will take effect. Quantity discounts are available.

PreFab UI Actions is universal. While Apple's Folder Actions and Digital Hub Actions are specialized tools that let your scripts respond when the user performs narrowly defined tasks, UI Actions goes much further. It allows any accessible user interface element in any application to trigger a script in response to any user action. UI Actions opens up whole new worlds of possibilities.

An attached UI Action script can even query the target application for useful information about the user action that triggered it. The information available to a UI Action script includes a reference to the UI element that was affected by the user's action, as well as all of its attributes, such as position, size, title, role and value. Using this information, every UI Action script can draw upon the full capabilities of AppleScript, including Apple's new GUI Scripting, to amplify and enhance the power of the target application.

Power users now have completely new ways to customize their Macintosh. Technical staff and consultants can tailor off-the-shelf applications in ways never before possible. Developers can target their products to specific vertical markets without touching existing code. Individual users can make their Mac even easier to use and more powerful.

PreFab Software, Inc. has unmatched experience controlling the GUI via scripts, releasing PreFab Player in 1994 with continued sales and support today for Mac OS 9 and earlier. In 2003, PreFab entered the world of Mac OS X with PreFab UI Browser, a popular utility to support Apple's new GUI Scripting technology. PreFab UI Actions, implementing "universal attachability" for AppleScript, followed in 2004. Download fully-functional 30-day trial versions at prefabsoftware.com/. UI Browser and UI Actions are based on Bill Cheeseman's Cocoa framework for working with Apple's accessibility API.

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Updated on October 4, 2004. Send questions or comments to support@prefabsoftware.com.