Top Ten AppleScript Tips

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Notes and Tips: Migration AppleScript

Notes and Tips: Migration AppleScript 07/16/2004 09:59 AM
If you fall into this Mac OS X migration trap, too, Eric Taylor's AppleScript may help.

Notes and Tips: AppleScript vs.
FileVault

Notes and Tips: AppleScript vs.
FileVault 05/29/2004 12:25 PM
AppleScript doesn't play well with FileVault, but here's one workaround....

Notes and Tips: Virtual PC Anti-Virus
Tips

Notes and Tips: Virtual PC Anti-Virus
Tips 05/17/2004 10:17 AM
Readers offer several tips about anti-virus software for Virtual PC.

Notes and Tips: Software Update Tips and
Voodoo

Notes and Tips: Software Update Tips and
Voodoo 12/29/2004 06:13 AM
John Gruber tackles software update rituals, what's real and what's voodoo, on Daring Fireball.

Notes and Tips: Motion Bugs and Tips

Notes and Tips: Motion Bugs and Tips 08/11/2004 10:29 AM
Apple issues a pile of KB articles on Motion issues.

Notes and Tips: Apple Tech Tips

Notes and Tips: Apple Tech Tips 04/22/2004 09:19 AM
Apple offers troubleshooting tips on Software Update, printing, Mail crashes and more.

Nice tips! Keep writing such short tips

Nice tips! Keep writing such short tips 09/10/2004 11:54 PM
TechTree Sep 11 2004 4:42AM GMT

Notes and Tips: Apple Support Tips

Notes and Tips: Apple Support Tips 04/11/2005 11:07 AM
iWork name and location restrictions, iSync compatibility

Notes and Tips: Security Flaw Tips

Notes and Tips: Security Flaw Tips 05/19/2004 10:23 AM
We have more scripts and tips today for dealing with Mac OS X Help's big security hole.

Help With iTunes AppleScript

Help With iTunes AppleScript 01/22/2004 12:57 PM

What is "delegation" in AppleScript?

What is "delegation" in AppleScript? 06/17/2004 12:59 PM
Delegation in AppleScript is similar to a filter. Using delegation, you can catch events which are not owned by you, then make some operations or let them flow.

Constructors in AppleScript

Constructors in AppleScript 06/10/2004 01:12 PM
jj: "Sample code to create and use a special structure in AppleScript mostly unknown as 'constructor'... Some of the features defined in the "constructor" maybe available only to OS X or special email clients (?), but this is simple source-code and can be adaptated."

AppleScript Basics

AppleScript Basics 08/12/2004 01:26 PM
You use AppleScript's Script Editor application to write small programs or scripts that include specially worded statements. AppleScript statements are converted by Mac OS into Apple events--messages that can be understood by the operating system and applications. When you run a script, the script can send instructions to the operating system or applications and receive messages in return.

Applescript vs. Cocoa

Applescript vs. Cocoa 02/07/2005 01:20 AM
"Ken Ferry mailed me about my iTunes controller, wondering what the overhead was for using Applescript in my Lisp controller. With a little experimentation I found that calling out to the shell added about 350ms to the runtime for each call, plus execution time. To refresh a page which interrogates iTunes for the current track, the current volume, and whether it was set to play on random or not would take well over a second just to call the scripts."

AppleScript Documentation

AppleScript Documentation 10/29/2003 12:13 AM
AppleScript is Apple's native scripting technology. It enables users to directly control applications, including the Mac OS itself, by creating sets of English-like instructions, or scripts. Developers can make their applications scriptable; that is, capable of responding to Apple events. Carbon and Cocoa applications both support scripting, allowing applications to execute scripts or send individual Apple events to take advantage of features of other applications.

AppleScript in Panther

AppleScript in Panther 10/29/2003 12:13 AM
Topping the list of important features is the new scriptable image processing architecture called Image Events. Script Editor application has been totally re-written to become a native Mac OS X application. Menus, windows, and dialogs of these applications can now be queried and controlled via AppleScript's new Graphic User Interface scripting architecture. iCal 1.5 includes the ability to set the execution of scripts as an action for calendar events.

Experiences with AppleScript

Experiences with AppleScript 04/08/2005 12:25 PM
Simon Brown: "If you've not seen AppleScript, it's a cross between a 3rd generation language and english. There's a fairly good language guide on the Apple website, although it's no tutorial. The script editor itself works well and I particularly like the way it auto-indents when you save or compile."

macscripter's appleScript faq

macscripter's appleScript faq 12/02/2003 11:00 AM
MacScripter's AppleScript FAQ section has undergone a massive update. Julio J. Sancho (aka JJ) has re-organized the categories, updated the contents, and unified the FAQs overall appearance. Plus, JJ has added many important new AppleScript FAQs. MacScripter's AppleScript FAQ section is a comprehensive list of frequently asked questions based on a simple Q&A format. The FAQs are indexed and split into several sub-categories.

AppleScript Editor 2.0

AppleScript Editor 2.0 11/03/2003 04:03 PM
Read, write, record, and save AppleScript scripts

Use AppleScript as a simple calculator

Use AppleScript as a simple calculator 08/11/2004 11:52 AM
You can use AppleScript as a standard calculator in a pinch -- just type in the equation as you would normally, and leave out the = sign. The answer will be displayed in a window titled 'The Result.' For example, enter (663 *...

10.3: Fax from command line (or
AppleScript)

10.3: Fax from command line (or
AppleScript) 12/05/2003 11:21 AM
I was working on this to be able to fax from Filemaker with FM scripting and AppleScripting. I needed to print to a file (a .ps file), then send the resulting file to the fax. Fax is actually a CUPS print queue, and I just ne...

Using AppleScript to build Mac OS X
applications

Using AppleScript to build Mac OS X
applications 04/19/2004 09:51 AM
This article will present various tools you can use to design AppleScript applications. We will also dissect a simple program that integrates the Finder and the Safari Web browser.

Launch applications by name using
Applescript

Launch applications by name using
Applescript 01/22/2004 02:36 AM
Quite often I use the Terminal to launch an application using open -a application_name. This is faster than traversing any menus or folders. An even faster way would be to put that functionality on a hotkey, so I wrote a smal...

AppleScript and Cocoa: from Top to
Bottom

AppleScript and Cocoa: from Top to
Bottom 09/01/2004 02:08 AM
AppleScript lets users - end users - combine abilities of the applications on their system to perform tasks that no single application can perform on its own. This means that a user can use data from one application, process it in another, and pass it on to a third. In the same way that Unix tools can be combined in very powerful ways on the command line, AppleScript lets users create solutions that are more than the sum of their parts. As well, AppleScript lets users automate repetitive tasks that they have to do often so that they can save time and effort.

AppleScript Gets a Truly Definitive
Guide

AppleScript Gets a Truly Definitive
Guide 12/09/2003 12:09 PM
Matt Neuberg: "Which brings us to my latest book, AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, published by O'Reilly & Associates. AppleScript is a fairly small language, but I was amazed by how difficult it was to write this book! It took more than twice as long as I'd expected. My approach, as readers of my Frontier and REALbasic books know, is not to rely on documentation, but to bang away at the language itself, testing and experimenting, trying to deduce the underlying rules."

Update: AppleScript Handbook

Update: AppleScript Handbook 02/05/2005 09:01 PM
Buy Danny Goodman's AppleScript Handbook in a new Mac OS X edition that's a PDF file.

AppleScript snippit page

AppleScript snippit page 03/13/2003 07:25 PM
Tim Conner: "I've set this section of the website up as a place to store and share any scripts that I've written that I think could be of use to others."

On run and On Open in AppleScript Studio

On run and On Open in AppleScript Studio 12/28/2004 07:41 PM
benlong: "I've got an AppleScript Studio project that currently centers around an on open handler, but I'd like to include an on run handler for instances where people double-click the app instead of dropping something on to it. Though I've done this before using AppleScript without ASS, I can't get it to work now - the on Run handler never seems to get triggered. Is this just me"

X-Builder AppleScript Support

X-Builder AppleScript Support 12/18/2003 01:02 PM
X-Builder combines a powerful, intuitive multimedia authoring environment with the ability to save projects as standalone applications. You can create substantial projects and applications with X-Builder without any scripting at all. But for really serious projects X-Builder provides built-in support for Apple's AppleScript scripting language. This can be used not only to control X-Builder, but also to communicate with any other scriptable application or to control the standalone applications generated with X-Builder.

An AppleScript to automate SSH -X
forwarding

An AppleScript to automate SSH -X
forwarding 04/21/2004 11:29 AM
I'm running a Linux server in my home network that I connect to several times during the day. Sometimes I connect just to look at logs, and other times to run X programs, forwarding the display to my G5 using the ssh -x opt...

FileMaker 7 AppleScript Reference 2.0

FileMaker 7 AppleScript Reference 2.0 06/02/2004 11:15 PM
Includes examples for FileMaker 6 and 7.

Keynote AppleScript Support

Keynote AppleScript Support 01/04/2005 08:40 PM
This link is for Tom: Keynote AppleScript Support Plugin. Includes Salling Clicker support. Yay!...

I Lovve AppleScript Studio

I Lovve AppleScript Studio 06/18/2004 09:33 AM
AppleScript Studio reminded me that writing software is creative and energizing and exciting. By Andy Ihnatko, Mac Observer (via MyAppleMenu)

AppleScript Helps You Take A Load Off

AppleScript Helps You Take A Load Off 02/10/2004 02:43 AM
You tell the computer what to do every step of the way, usually with a keyboard or mouse movement. Wouldn't it be nice if your computer could handle some of that stuff while you turn your attention to something, well, more interesting? By Gene Steinberg (USA Today via MyAppleMenu)

VoodooPad + GTD + Applescript ->
NetNewsWire

VoodooPad + GTD + Applescript ->
NetNewsWire 12/19/2004 03:25 PM
Leland Johnson wrote a script that pulls tasks at random from VoodooPad and lists them in NetNewsWire—as a kind of tickler, a way of reminding him of things on his to-do list.

AppleScript - the Definitive Guide

AppleScript - the Definitive Guide 01/30/2004 06:07 PM

AppleScript Pro coming to Chicago

AppleScript Pro coming to Chicago 06/05/2005 11:54 PM
AppleScript Pro Sessions have been announced for October 31-November 4 in Chicago. This will be the eighth automation training event, but the first in the midwestern US. The sessions offer an introduction to AppleScript, as well as in-depth coverage of scripting applications such as InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress and FileMaker, as well as coverage of how to use Automator and create custom Actions in AppleScript Studio.

AppleScript text console?

AppleScript text console? 07/30/2004 01:58 PM
Whenever I’m writing AppleScript scripts, I wish I had a simple text console I could write to.

I find myself doing display dialog or creating formatted blocks of text and creating a new TextEdit window to display them. But that’s a pain.

Is there such an application?

Revised Documentation: AppleScript for
Mac OS X

Revised Documentation: AppleScript for
Mac OS X 05/28/2004 04:55 PM
This document provides a high-level overview of AppleScript for Mac OS X, along with pointers to additional documentation. AppleScript is a scripting language that provides direct control of scriptable applications and of many parts of the Mac OS. A scriptable application is one that is capable of responding to AppleScript messages, which are called Apple events. Scripters can write scripts to automate operations, while developers can use AppleScript as an aid to rapid prototyping and automated testing of their scriptable applications.
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