How to record an applescript in Snow Leopard?

Question

I open ScriptEditor, click on Record, click on some icons in the doc, open System Preferences, then click stop in the ScriptEditor and nothing happens, meaning I get no script. Nothing was recorded.

Has anyone being able to record any applescript using Script Editor under Snow Leopard? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

-Sergio

Answer 1

You can only record applications that are written to be recordable. Try recording some actions in the Finder, and it should work.

Answer 2

There are very few modern recordable AppleScript apps. In addition to Finder, BareBones' excellent free TextWrangler text-editing app is recordable (as is the pro BBEdit editor); Fetch, the FTP client, is recordable.