Smile 3.4 regular edition, Read me, January 2009

Preliminary note

• Smile 3.4 requires MacOS X 10.5 or higher
• For any information or resource, please visit Smile's home page at:
       http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/index.html
• The release notes for Smile can be found only on the World Wide Web, at:
       http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/releasesmilex.html

Overview

Smile is an AppleScript-based working environment which offers both a set of production technologies and a natural fashion of having them work together so that you produce faster and better.

Features

Here are the technologies available in Smile, regular edition.

• The AppleScript Terminal
• The scripts and applets editor
• The editor of scripted interfaces
• The regular expressions on ASCII and on Unicode
• The XML engine
• The p-list engine
• The 2-d graphic engine
• The Unicode text editor
• The styled text editor
• The scientific environment
• The industrial interfaces (RS232, Digital I/O, LED display)

Getting started

• While Smile is running, pull down the Help menu. This is where you open the hypertext documentation which ships with Smile.
• Smile's hypertext documentation is also available online. To view the hypertext documentation, visit:
       http://www.satimage-software.com/en/info_center.html
  The online documentation may be more exhaustive and up to date than the hypertext documentation available in the Help menu in Smile.

Preferences and personal items

Smile creates a folder in the user domain to store your personal files. The path to that folder is:
     /Users/<login>/Library/Application Support/Smile/

• Smile stores your preferences, current settings and permanent variables (one of Smile's unique features) in:
       /Users/<login>/Library/Application Support/Smile/Class scripts/Globals
  Trash that file while Smile is not running to reset your preferences for Smile.
• Smile stores your Worksheet, if you use one, in:
       /Users/<login>/Library/Application Support/Smile/Worksheet
• Store your personal scripts or aliases in:
       /Users/<login>/Library/Application Support/Smile/User scripts/
  The items that you store there get appended to Smile's User Scripts menu (the menu with a parchment icon).

Installed items

Smile's installer creates or updates the following files and folders:

• The Smile application folder:
       /Applications/Smile/
  The installer moves the previous Smile folder (if any) to the trash.
• Smile's companion osaxen are updated in:
       /Library/ScriptingAdditions/
  The installer removes the previous Smile's companion osaxen (if any).

Technical support

• Send any question to:
       
• Subscribe to the discussion list for Smile, send email to:
       
  (whatever the Subject and the body of the mail.)

Credits

• A warm thank is extended to those who reported bugs, offered suggestions, or collaborated with us at any level.
• The following users brought significant contributions to the software, and you owe them more comfort, more power, or more accessibility.
  • Kurt Klamp, Röthenbach, Germany
  • Jean-Baptiste Le Stang, Paris, France
  • Chuck Ross, Productive Computing, San Diego, CA
  • Julio J. Sancho, Pescados Software, Madrid, Spain
  • Hamish Sanderson, London, United Kingdom
  • Daniel Siret, Nantes, France

Disclaimer

In no event will Satimage-software be liable for any consequences of the use or of the lack of use of this software.

• Software, updates, licenses, info: http://www.satimage-software.com
• Bugs, suggestions, feedback: http://www.satimage-software.com/en/support/index.html
• Subscribe to Smile User discussion List: http://www.satimage-software.com/en/support/sul.html

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