We have been busy creating more tools for you to use.
Newer Scripter version.
For more effectively using AppleScript in Internet work, Main Event is creating a new version (2.0) of Scripter which has capabilities that are specifically designed to aid and enhance the writing and perfecting of CGI scripts and Netscape Helper Applications. By the time you read this, this new version will likely be available.
Also available:
ScriptBase™, the scripting database, is a database for storing persistent data values and objects to be made available for access to AppleScript. Once installed, the database becomes part of the AppleScript system, adding a host of commands to the basic AppleScript vocabulary. Retrieving the objects is simple using AppleScript's natural-language syntax and structure. Objects stored and retrieved in ScriptBase can be accessible any time from any script on a computer. These objects can be of any type, including numbers, characters strings, lists, records, scripts, and references to disks, files, folders, as well as abstract raw data, to name just a few.
ScriptBase can be used to maintain system-wide settings, such as sets of preferences, paths to frequently-used files or folders. You can also save values from one script that can be accessed by another script running at a later time.
For the Web, you can store file paths, user choices, and other commonly used shared values, which different CGI's on the server can retrieve, in a single location.
Rosanne™, a collection of utilites which offer a high degree of control over raw data. You can sort files extract selected records, summarize frequency counts, create sample files, perform matching on multiple files, and reformat data to new specifications, all on the desktop, and even on files of a million records or more. The Rosanne Utilities support AppleScript, enabling the user to link several actions together to complete an entire process. The Rosanne Utilities are recordable; you may perform a series of actions, and using an AppleScript editor such as Scripter, see your actions translated directly into AppleScript commands. All of the utilites support multi-tasking and background processing. The Rosanne Utilities will help you pick your specifications, determinine record length, create output files and manage the storage of data.
Rosanne Utilities: Format - reformats an input file, converting characters, case, newlines, delimiters, fixed/variable record lengths, selecting specific fields, and adding repeating set and fields with constant or fill values, or sequence numbers. Copy - creates a sample subset of an input file. Select - creates a subset of the records on an input file based on some selection criteria. The Recode option allows you to group data, or correct coding entiries. Sort - orders an input file by a particular set of fields. Match - joins together two input files based on common values occurring in corresponding fields. Aggregate - creates a summarized output file.
For the Web, as an example, you can to go into a raw data file, extract specific records, reformat the data, summarize it, and return the results back to the client, and under control of an AppleScript CGI.
AppleScript Training
Main Event's intensive training programs for developers, customers and support personnel give you the working knowledge to implement AppleScript into your work quickly. Seminars are directed towards the need of the client, not based on a preset curriculum.
The training is administered on-site over 3 or 4 days, 6 or 8 hours per day (depending on the nature and scheduling requirements of the group), The unique approach involves an impromptu tailoring towards the specific needs of the particular group of participants, so the training is different for novice scripters (non-programers), programmers and support personnel. Part of the success of this approach stems from building foundations that are thoroughly understood before moving on to subsequent levels. It's really different from a structured course; the results tend to be quite remarkable.
Main Event Web Site
Also, by the time you read this, Main Event's WWW site should be operational. It will be a comprehensive source of information about AppleScript and Main Event's product line and activities. The site is slated to be at www.mainevent.com.
