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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.

Learning AppleScript

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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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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Script to Open Gmail Inbox in Firefox

Mozilla Firefox Application LogoThis is a quick and easy way to go to your Gmail Inbox. If already logged in, it goes straight to Gmail and opens your inbox. If you want instant login (even if you aren’t already logged in), you can edit this script by placing your Gmail address and password into the appropriate dialog prompts of the script below.

This script assumes that you have an email account set up through Gmail:

try
 set isLoggedIn to button returned ¬
 of (display dialog "Have you already logged in ¬
 to your email account for this session?" ¬
 buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 2 ¬
 with icon note)
 if isLoggedIn = "No" then
  set theEmail to text returned of ¬
  (display dialog "Enter your email account ¬
  here:" default answer "yourEmail@gmail.com")
  set thePassword to text returned of ¬
  (display dialog "Enter your password here:" ¬
  default answer "" with hidden answer)
  if theEmail = "" or thePassword = "" then error
 end if
 exists application "Firefox"
 tell application "Firefox"
  activate
  delay 3
  if isLoggedIn = "No" then
   open location ¬
   "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?"
   delay 10
   tell application "System Events"
    keystroke theEmail
    keystroke tab
    keystroke thePassword
    keystroke return
   end tell
  end if
  open location "http://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox"
 end tell
on error
 display alert "Either your email or password ¬
 have not been entered." message "Please enter ¬
 the required info and try again." as warning
end try

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This script is pretty straightforward. The login dialog prompts gather the email address and password data and place them into the corresponding variables ‘theEmail’ and ‘thePassword’. If either the email or password is not entered, an error message is displayed and the script is aborted.

When Firefox has been launched, the ‘System Events’ application uses Apple’s GUI scripting capability to automate the entry of the text data into the text fields and sends the data to Gmail. For this to work correctly, be sure that the Enable Access for Assistive Devices check box (in your system’s Universal Access contol panel in System Preferences) is enabled (for GUI Scripting).

Contact me if you have any questions or comments at: hyperscripter@gmail.com or http://facebook.com/hyperscripter

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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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