Yate for Mac

Export Sets

• Attributes for read only and hidden can be preset.

Action Statement Changes

• There is a new statement named Apply Filter. The statement can be used to apply a main window named filter to the current available files. Each file has a track variable set to true or false signifying the success or failure of the filter.
• The Get Info statement can now return a list of main window filters.
• The Include statement can use the \af escape sequence in a named item. \af refers to the current action's name. This makes it easier to include items for export or the batch chain based on an action which might be renamed.
• All settings in the Extract Bracketed Text statement can now be set at runtime.
• The Indexed Artwork statement's Copy and Compare functions can now specify the source is an Initial image.
• There's a new statement named List of Modified Items. It can produce a list of all modified fields, modified UDTIs or modified UD URLs. It can also return descriptive text for any modified field.
• The Multi Item Field List Enumerator statement can now enumerate initial values as well as current values.
• The Prompt from Container statement:
  • The multi line edit panel can now be opened when the value field is read only. The edit panel is opened as read only.
  • There's a new key named multiLineNoTrim. By default, the multi line editor will remove leading and trailing spaces on each row. When set to true, the trimming of each row is suppressed.
  • There's a new key named multiLineROValue. When the multi line editor is read only, alternate text can be specified to be used as opposed to the value text.
  • There's a new key named multiLineShowSpaces. When true, spaces will be displayed as centered dots.

Resource Actions

• From 2014 through 2017 an action named Featuring Manipulation was provided to extract credits from featuring lists in the Artist and/or Title fields. The action has been completely rewritten and is now available again with the name Extract Featuring Credits.

Resource Documentation

• The Yate and the P Word document and the associated action snippets have been updated.

Bug Fixes

• The View>Log changes to functions could report incorrect path changes under certain circumstances.
• The \=# Value of Field in Track Variable sequence was missing from the escape sequence insertion context menu.
• The Indexed Artwork statement's Compare function did not always return a proper result with an invalid source index.
• Dragging an image to the Finder's Get Info drop panel would crash the application.
• Regular expression replacement templates were not accepting ${#} for capture groups. The text enclosed in { } was always treated as a named capture set. The ${#} sequence is useful for disambiguation purposes if numeric text can come after the capture group. eg. ${0}123 will insert 123 after capture group 1. $1123 will not work.
• The \ai escape sequence was not returning the correct started action when batch processing and in the Batch Start or Batch End action.