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Using Aliases and POSIX Paths

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:18:53 +0000

Over the time that I have been writing AppleScripts, I have found that one of the most difficult, if not frustrating, tasks of writing scripts is referencing files by path so that they can be accessed by other applications.

As you’ll see below, creating a reference that is understandable by the Finder is fairly simple (not [...]

Using Info Window Data to Write Scripts

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:33:43 +0000

In the initial section of this post, I leave the AppleScript code formatted as it would appear in the Script Editor pane to show that keywords, statements and other expressions that appear in blue in the Script Editor are part of the AppleScript language and syntax and knowing that is helpful when writing scripts.

Let’s start [...]

Concatenation or Parsing and Editing of Text Strings

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:34:31 +0000

In this section we deal with various methods to extract different parts of text from lists and other text and at the end, how to put it all together to make a new text string. This is sort of lengthy, but it is pretty easy to follow,

First, to extract text from a list. Both of [...]

Using AppleScript Dialogs to Invoke actions

admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:41:21 +0000

If you remember from my last post, we ended up with this dialog which had to be encompassed by a ‘try clause’ to prevent an error message from being generated by activating the ‘Cancel’ button. In this post, I will begin by modifying the script below to show you how you can use data returned [...]

Getting Started with AppleScript Dialogs

admin — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:32:26 +0000

Dialogs are essential when you want to communicate with users so that they can make decisions on a course of action when notified of the state of an application or the system itself. Well written dialogs that are informative and clear are vital to any credible software solution.

Furthermore, as you’ll see, I will try to [...]