FaceSpan 4.3 review
DownloadFaceSpan is the cutting edge, interface design and rapid application development (RAD) tool for AppleScript.
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FaceSpan is the cutting edge, interface design and rapid application development (RAD) tool for AppleScript.
FaceSpan affords its users thepower to build and customize Macintosh applications quickly and easily.
FaceSpan lets you quickly and easily build full Mac OS X applications using AppleScript. It allows you to create windows and menus by simply dragging elements from a palette. AppleScript code can be associated with any user interface element to respond to user actions.
What's New:
FaceSpan now requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later to run.
Cosmetic problems drawing header titles in the object palettes have been resolved.
Problems creating new projects on Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) systems have been resolved.
The layout of FaceSpan windows has been altered to remove wasted space.
Command-. Keyboard accelerator has been added to Stop command in Project menu.
Pressing Option-Return now inserts AppleScript line continuation (as it does in all other AppleScript editors).
Crashing problems deleting windows from projects have been resolved.
FaceSpan no longer creates a damaged project when asked to overwrite an existing project.
The Enclose in Container and Remove Container commands are now undoable.
A number of crashing problems duplicating/copying window items have been resolved.
A number of crashing problems in the FaceSpan 3 project importer have been resolved.
FaceSpan no longer hangs when importing an existing FaceSpan 3 project.
The layout editor no longer hangs after a radio button matrix is dragged into a tab view.
Problems where the script editor became inoperative following a compile have been resolved.
Mouse Up and Mouse Down events are now properly generated for controls.
Support for adding Scripting Additions to a project has been added.
Support for localizing projects has been added.
A 'Special Characters' menu item to the Edit menu has been added.
'Show character palette' as an option in the menu item properties inspector pane has been added.
The About FaceSpan panel now displays the version number correctly.
Fixed an issue with setting "Other" attributes for menu items.
Fixed an issue where dropping files onto folders in the Project Window would cause the app to stall.
Fixed a crashing bug relating to the loading of certain fonts when they are defined as part of the AppleScript Formatting set.
The version property correctly reports the application version as set in the Executable Settings panel of the FaceSpan IDE.
Tab views can now be deleted.
It is now possible to call AppleScript subroutines in other Window and View objects.
Requirements:
A valid FaceSpan 4 registration number.
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