General question about application programming

[westworld]

I've been trying to use Applescript to automate my office workflow in Freehand MX. It's very solely lacking so I'm considering moving over to the PC and using VB. I'm just wondering if VB is a reasonable approach here. The process really just entails callling a bunch of FH commands and opening/closing/saving files. Thanks in advance.

[Joacim Andersson]

Well I don't know anything about applescript, and I can honestly say that I don't know what you mean by FH commands. But VB is a full development environment so of course it can handle file operations. If you're actually talking about VBScript instead of the full VB environment, it can still do all kind of file operations. But what is a FH command?

[westworld]

FH = Freehand MX Commands.

What I want to be able to do is run a script that will take a limited number of user inputs at the beginning only, then open a template, import files, move objects to different layers, etc.

I've written a number of VBscript, so I am fairly comfortable with the syntax, objects, etc but have no idea what the VB development environment looks like or how to get started.

[Hack]

Do you have a copy of VB6 or Visual Studio 6?

There are a number of VB Tutorials on the web, and this forum is a wealth of information on a wide, wide range of development subjects.

(I, too, have never heard of Freehand MX Commands, but I'm confident that whatever they do you could accomplish within the VB development environment)