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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.

HTML Anchor Code

Here is a sample of how to write code to link one part of your blog page to another:

<a name = "By Email">[optional text]</a> --place this where you want the link to go <a href = "#By Email">By Email</a> --this is the actual link

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HTML Code to Link to Other Web Pages

Here is a sample of code to link to another page. this is similar to the anchor code, except that the destination code is the url of the destination site:

<a href= "www.webSite.
com"> Website Name</a>

--just replace "www.webSite.
com" with the actual url destination site and replace 'Website Name' with the prompt that the user will see.

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AppleScript Note:

It might be interesting to those of you who are AppleScript enthusiasts that the HyperCard (HyperTalk) project was the prototype back in the '80's of what became the system-wide Applescript language (akin to JavaScript) that is in use today.
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Trapping for List Dialog Errors

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 to trap for this type of error: set x to (choose from list {"Joe","Amy",
"Bill"} with prompt "Choose a record:")
if x is false then
else
set targetItem to (x as text)
show every record whose cell "Name" contains x
end if
 When the user clicks on 'Cancel', the variable x is assigned the boolean value false. So all you have to do is set up a conditional to deal with that and to perform the usual statements otherwise.

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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"}

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Mac LC III (1994), the first Mac that I ever owned, the CD-Rom and Zip drive were added much later.

Basic HTML

Here is an example of a very simple HTML document:

<html>
<head>
<title>Basic HTML Document</title>
</head>
<body>
Your text goes here
</body>
</html>

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Finding an Address with Google Maps

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

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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"}

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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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