metacard and language tools

[Mark Mitchell]

>>salvatore writes:
>I would like to combine my program with another commercially available software 
>(Errata Corrige, an Italian language tool).  The idea is to have metacard paste 
>the composition in a new document in Errata Corrige and ask it to choose the 
>menu item "statistics". When asked for statistics, Errata Corrige would produce 
>a graph (image), which I would like to import in metacard or directly in 
the .txt file or .rtf file.

If Errata Corrige is a Macintosh program, some actions may be scriptable with appleScript.  I forget how you get a list of
scriptable features for a given program, but it's quite easy (I know I've done it before).  If it is not scriptable, the best
you might be able to do is automatically copy the essay to the clipboard and launch Errata Corrige.  You would then have to do
the rest manually.  I had this problem with a dictionary program I was trying to integrate that was not appleScriptable.

good luck,
mark mitchell
japan