Learning AppleScript for Beginners » Choose Folder http://www.scriptsforapple.com Discussions on AppleScripting, with emphasis on tutorials for those new to scripting. Example scripts of general utility, as well as some that relate to specific applications (FileMaker Pro, AppleWorks, Script Editor, specialized scripts and others). Some discussion of HyperCard and AppleScript and the Classic (OS9) environment Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:06:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Transfer Files to New Folder http://www.scriptsforapple.com/transfer-files-to-new-folder/ http://www.scriptsforapple.com/transfer-files-to-new-folder/#comments Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:31:11 +0000 admin http://www.scriptsforapple.com/?p=2411 Sometimes I am overwhelmed with the number of items that I have on my desktop and within folders and subfolders and having to spend so much of my time trying to organize them so they will be easy to locate. So, I came up with a script to automate that task.

To use this script, [...]]]> http://www.scriptsforapple.com/transfer-files-to-new-folder/feed/ 190 The How and Why: Coercing Record and List Data Types http://www.scriptsforapple.com/the-how-and-why-coercing-record-and-list-data-types/ http://www.scriptsforapple.com/the-how-and-why-coercing-record-and-list-data-types/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:22:39 +0000 admin http://www.scriptsforapple.com/?p=2027  

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When I was new to scripting, I had a lot of problems with coercing records into lists and visa-versa. It wasn’t really the coercing that was so difficult, it was getting the resulting data into a useable form. In addition, I didn’t see any real advantage to doing so.

[...]]]> http://www.scriptsforapple.com/the-how-and-why-coercing-record-and-list-data-types/feed/ 215 Choose Folder Dialogs http://www.scriptsforapple.com/choose-folder-dialogs/ http://www.scriptsforapple.com/choose-folder-dialogs/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:27:56 +0000 admin http://www.scriptsforapple.com/?p=631 In the next few posts, we will look at dialogs where the user chooses among items in directories on the desktop that return reference pointers to the actual files (most are aliases) that they represent. The dialogs we will deal with here are ‘choose folder’, ‘choose file’, ‘choose file name’ and ‘choose color’.

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