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Dialog Director 0.7

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Dialog Director is a scripting addition that extends AppleScript and other OSA compatible languages on any computer running Mac OS 7 or later. It provides a rich set of features that allow you to create advanced and dynamic dialog boxes and floating windows directly from within your AppleScript scripts. This gives you the ability to extend & customise an application's user interface and to write applets, droplets, embedded scripts and assistants with the power to interact with your users in a fast, friendly, effective and professional manner. Dialog Director is *FREE*. You may redistribute Dialog Director to anyone as long as you include the complete, unaltered, Dialog Director package and do not charge for it. Dialog Director includes support for 7 window styles, global and application specific floating windows, push buttons, check boxes, radio buttons & groups, standard & editable pop-up menus, scrolling text and icon lists, static text items, text & password fields, rectangular frames & separators, pictures & icons, colour pickers, progress bars & barber poles, four kinds of icon button, four kinds of transparent polygon button and a QuickTime movie controller item. Features include standard or greyscale appearance, automatic and live dialogs, structured font specs, dialog item dependencies, up to 7 dialogs within dialogs, push button action scripts, get & set dialog & item properties, create & delete dialogs & items in any open dialog, up to 32K of text in text/password fields & static text items, full support for extended keyboards in text fields & lists. It also includes over 60 fully working example scripts and applets (with full AppleScript source code) including: * DD Connect To... - a 'Connect To...' that keeps a list of your favourite URLs * FMP Browser - A floating palette for FileMaker providing navigation * HTML Palette - A palette for ClarisWorks supplying HTML tag insertion * Dialog Dumper - An applet that generates DD scripts from ResEdit dialogs * SuperCT2 - A droplet that change creators and/or types of multiple files And: * Extensive documentation ~40 pages * Resource Utilities v1.1b1 scripting addition More information is also available at Dialog Director's home page:

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