Smile 3.4.2

Smile 3.4.2 provides the easiest way to produce faster and better with a set of production technologies and a natural fashion of having them work together, you automate frequent tasks and you control complex operations.

Major Features:

1. An AppleScript editor with many scripting helpers, and a unique on-line AppleScript interpreter - a shell for AppleScript with a persistent context
2. An editor of scripted interfaces
3. A text editor for ASCII and Unicode, with a search-and-replace tool supporting Regular Expressions
4. A XML editor
5. Regular Expression commands
6. XML and p-list commands
7. A 2D graphic engine, where you program vectorial PDF graphics by script
8. Commands for driving industrial interfaces: RS232 serial communication, digital I/O, LED display.
9. Smile interface
   • AppleScript terminals - the windows where you run your scripts
   • DIctionaries - AppleScript dictionaries define the commands that you can use
   • Graphic windows - the PDF windows to perform data visualization and programmed graphics
   • Compiled scripts - the colored script windows
   • Unicode windows - editing Unicode and XML
10. AppleScript documentation
    • In Smile, you use a single language, AppleScript, to control every component. AppleScript is the native inter-application language of the Apple machines.
    • AppleScript's reference documentation, AppleScript Language Guide (ASLG), is available at Apple's site both as HTML and as a PDF file. This is a must-read for any AppleScript scripter.
    • The first section of Smile's tutorial provides a short description of AppleScript and how to use scripts in Smile.
11. Scripting Smile
    • Controlling Smile's objects
    • Scripting gotchas
    • Customizing Smile
    • Custom GUI
12. Technologies included
    • Text, Unicode, Regular expressions
    • XML and property lists
    • Numerical computations
    • The graphic library
    • The industrial interfaces

Enhancements:

• Some versions of the installer of Smile 3.4.1 regular edition didn't work correctly: a message say that that an instance of Smile is already running and the installation can't be processed. This is fixed.
• The XMLSetEncoding command didn't change the meta tags of the html/xhtml documents. This is fixed.
• XMLLib.osax now uses libxml-2.7

Requirements:

• MacOS 10.5 or higher