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Script to Set AppleWorks Font from ‘Choose from List’

admin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:18:00 +0000

I came upon this one kinda by chance as I was working on another script. This uses GUI to get the first 10 fonts of the font menu in AppleWorks, displays them in a ‘choose from list’ dialog and, when you make a selection, selects the entire contents of the frontmost document and sets the [...]

Working with Dates in AppleScript

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:51:49 +0000

If you have ever worked with date coercions and manipulations in AppleScript, you know how frustrating it can be, from something as simple as trying to coerce it to text so that it can be displayed in a dialog, to trying to convert it to a different date format; you have one simple thing in [...]

Enhanced Choose from List (Tiger and Leopard)

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:04:25 +0000

In one of my early posts I outlined the basic syntax for the ‘Choose from List’ dialog. Here, I will present some of the new parameters that are available in Tiger (10.4) and Leopard (10.5).

In case you need to refresh your memory, here is the basic command:

set theName to (choose from list {"John", [...]

Trapping for List Dialog Errors

admin — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:16:03 +0000

With ‘List Dialog’ type dialogs, since errors cannot be intercepted in an ‘on error’ handler, there is no ‘normal’ way to trap for ‘Cancel’ which, of course, would result in some sort of undesirable error dialog such as ‘User cancelled. Error number -128′. Here is an example of one simple way I have found [...]

More on List Dialogs

admin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:07:47 +0000

This post will deal with what I consider a very concrete use of the ‘choose from list’ dialog. After reading this (and perhaps trying it out in the Script Editor) you will probably be totally confused (just kidding!!) It gets a little complicated, but it is basically a cut-and-paste script.

If you pay close attention [...]

Dialogs for Lists

admin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:43:26 +0000

In this post, we will deal with situations when you want to choose from multiple options within a list. You can have lists that are preset, such as choosing from a list of months of the year, for instance, or perhaps a list such as that which might be generated from a database program when [...]