Smile 3.4.2

Smile 3.4.2 offers you a useful programming and working environment that allows you to use in a variety of situations. You may want to perform a scientific work, to handle cgi requests, to automate an intensive file processing task, to produce computed graphics, to edit XML files, to work with Unicode texts, to make GUI of your scripts, etc. 

Major Features:

1. Smile interface - The pages below describe each kind of window that you can use in Smile. Smile's interface uses a small set of kinds of windows: this is what enables you to fully control Smile by script.
   • 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
2. AppleScript documentation
   • 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.
3. Scripting Smile - The main component that you will control with AppleScript is Smile itself. The following links explain how to use Smile by script. NB: You may need to read first the section about
   
   • Controlling Smile's objects
   • Scripting gotchas
   • Customizing Smile
   • Custom GUI
4. Technologies included - Smile includes several technologies that enhance its adaptability to your projects:
   • Text, Unicode, Regular expressions
   • XML and property lists
   • Numerical computations
   • The graphic library
   • The industrial interfaces

Enhancements:

• Smile uses a new text engine. The text windows (AppleScript terminals, script windows and Unicode windows) should be much more efficient when handling large amount of text.
• The F5 key or alt-tab in a text window now opens an autocompletion popup menu.
• Syntax coloring is enabled in Unicode windows corresponding to .html, .js, .plist, .sdef, .xml and .xsl files.