Basic AppleScript Dialog: display dialog "Your text here" with icon stop buttons {"OK"} default button {"OK"} giving up after 5
'giving up after 5' will automatically close the script after the indicated interval of time has elapsed.
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A handy script that automates Google Maps. It can be enhanced with a ‘choose from list’ dialog for frequent address searches or (as you’ll see below) you can enhance the script with a database program such as FileMaker Pro, to search for an address from a specific record.
Some notes below, but first the script:
try
set findAddress to text returned ¬
of (display dialog ¬
"Enter address to find:" default answer "Your address here")
exists application "Firefox"
tell application "Firefox"
activate
delay 5
open location ¬
"http://www.google.com/maps"
delay 10
tell application "System Events"
keystroke findAddress
keystroke return
end tell
end tell
on error
display alert ¬
"No address has been entered." message ¬
"Enter required info and try again." as warning
end try
Remember, that for this to work correctly, GUI scripting must be enabled.
Take note of the statement ‘exists application “Firefox”‘. I use this because it will activate Firefox and helps with the timing of the delays that follow, which still may need to be adjusted for slower internet access and the speed of your processor.
Between the exists statement and activate there should be enough time for Firefox to be ready to go before the rest of the script continues.
After the Google map page opens, System Events, which requires GUI Scripting, takes over and enters the address in the address field and sends the return command to send the request for the map. It’s that simple!
This code below can be used with FileMaker Pro in place of the ‘display dialog’ text entry code at the beginning of the script.
tell application "FileMaker Pro"
set googleSearch to (get cell "Address" of current record) & " " & (get cell "City" of current record) & ", " & (get cell "State" of current record) & " " & (get cell "Zip Code" of current record)
copy googleSearch to (cell "googleAddress" of current record)
end tell
Just a side note for those that are not familiar with the ‘display alert’ syntax, that I use in the error block above to see how to write this code go to Display Alert
For a script dealing with Gmail Inbox
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  iPhoto 6 Create Multiple Folders with Terminal
If you are more of a techy kind of person and are comfortable with using Terminal, here is a script you can use to easily create multiple folders:
First, for a single folder, type in: mkdir "Folder 1"
--or whatever you want to name your folder, this creates a new directory, which, in effect is a new folder.
To place multiple items in the 'Documents' folder:
cd/Users/
Administrator/
Documents
mkdir "Folder 1" "Folder 2"
"Folder 3"
To quickly create multiple folders, create a text file with the desired folder names (as many as you want) and name it something like 'folderList.txt'. Next type this in Terminal:
cat folderList.txt |xargs mkdir
Or you could create folders with the same prefix by entering:
mkdir "Invoices " {"Corporate", "Individual", "Pro-Bono"}
Digg This!! An AppleScript to Verify a Date Run this in the Script Editor:
set dateRecord to (current date)
set defaultDate to (date string of dateRecord)
try
set apptDate to text returned of (display dialog "Enter appointment date:" default answer defaultDate buttons {"Set"} default button {"Set"})
set datetext to apptDate as text
date apptDate --if an invalid date is entered, the next dialog is aborted and it triggers the error alert below.
display dialog datetext & " is a valid date." with icon note buttons {"OK"} default button {"OK"}
on error
set alertText to "An error has occurred!"
set messageText to quote & datetext & quote & " is an invalid date."
display alert alertText message messageText as warning buttons {"OK"} default button "OK" giving up after 15
return
end try
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Here's is the code as it appears above:
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Check out this color HTML!!! AppleScript for Setting System Volume Copy and paste this into the Script Editor and try it out:
set defaultVolume to "3"
set volumeLevel to text returned of ¬
(display dialog ¬
"Set the system volume to (7 is the highest):"¬
default answer defaultVolume with icon note¬
buttons {"OK"} default button "OK") as integer
set volumeValues to {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7} ¬
as list
if volumeLevel is not in volumeValues then ¬
set volumeLevel to defaultVolume
tell application "Finder"
try
set volume volumeLevel
beep 2
on error errDlog
display dialog errDlog with icon stop ¬
buttons {"Abort"} default button ¬
"Abort" giving up after 15
end try
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HyperCard AppleScript Users:
Heres an AppleScript for backing up a selected group of HyperCard files. this was used in one of my HyperCard stacks, but could be adapted for use in OSX programs with little or no modification:
send "suiteBkp(true)" to bg btn "BackupSuite"
--Use this line to call the handler below (true displays a notification dialog when the process is complete, you must have a button named bg btn "BackupSuite"):
on suiteBkp(theBoolean)
copy line 1 of field "selectedFolder" to theHFFolderPath --You'll need a hidden field named "selectedFolder" that a script (prior to the call) will place the path to the desired folder in.
tell application "Finder"
activate
set todaysDate to (current date)
set bkpYear to (year of todaysDate)
set monthlyBkp to ("Monthly Reports_" & bkpYear) as string
if exists (folder "HyperCard Backup") then
select folder "HyperCard Backup"
delete selection
end if
if exists (folder "HyperCard Backup" of folder theHFFolderPath) then
select folder "HyperCard Backup" of folder theHFFolderPath
delete selection
end if
make new folder at folder theHFFolderPath with properties {name:"HyperCard Backup"}
select {file "Appointments" of folder theHFFolderPath, ¬ file "HyperFile" of folder theHFFolderPath, ¬ file "Outstanding Invoices" of folder theHFFolderPath, ¬ file "Year" of folder theHFFolderPath, ¬ file monthlyBkp of folder theHFFolderPath, ¬
copy selection to folder "HyperCard Backup" of folder theHFFolderPath
select folder "HyperCard Backup" of folder theHFFolderPath
select file "Appointments" of folder ¬ "HyperFile Suite Backup" of folder theHFFolderPath
set name of selection to "Appointments.bkp"
select file "HyperFile" of folder "HyperCard Backup" of ¬ folder theHFFolderPath
set name of selection to "HyperFile.bkp"
select file "Outstanding Invoices" of ¬ folder "HyperFile Suite Backup" of folder theHFFolderPath
set name of selection to "Outstanding Invoices.bkp"
select file "Year" of folder "HyperFile Suite Backup" of ¬ folder theHFFolderPath
set name of selection to "Year.bkp"
set prefMonthlyBkp to (monthlyBkp & ".bkp") as string
select file monthlyBkp of folder "HyperFile Suite Backup" of ¬ folder theHFFolderPath
set name of selection to prefMonthlyBkp
select folder "HyperFile Suite Backup" of folder "The HyperFile Folder"
move selection to desktop
end tell
if theBoolean = "true" then
tell application "HyperCard"
activate
display dialog ¬ "Your backup has been saved to desktop." buttons {"Done"} default button {"Done"} with icon 129 giving up after 10
end tell
end if
end suiteBkp
 Macintosh Plus (late 1984), followed close behind the Mac 512k
 The classic Apple IIc (1981), part of a series of Apple computers that preceded the debut of the Macintosh HyperCard Users Corner:
Here's a simple, but very useful little HyperTalk script for verifying the validity of a date entered by a user, assuming that you have a menu item "flag date..." (or whatever you choose to name it) or it could be altered slightly and placed within a mouseUp statement:
if menuItem = "Flag Date..." then
global tryDate
ask "Enter a date for your new appointment:" with the long date
if it ≠ "" and the result ≠ "Cancel" then
put it into tryDate
else
put "" into tryDate
exit doMenu
end if
if invalidDate() then
answer "The date entered is not valid!"
put "" into tryDate
exit doMenu
end if
--Here you would put the statements to execute if the entered date proves to be valid
put "" into tryDate
end if
function invalidDate
global tryDate
convert tryDate to short date
if the result = "invalid date" then
return true
else
return false
end if
end invalidDate
more HyperTalk
  Mac SE (circa 1987), was a more advanced version of the Mac Plus and had an internal hard drive. YouTube Video Search Script:
tell application "Finder"
try
set webSearch to text returned of (display dialog "Enter YouTube Video
Search" default answer "" buttons {"Search", "Cancel"} default button 1)
open location "http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=" & webSearch
on error theError
display dialog theError
end try
end tell |
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