Learning AppleScript for Beginners » coerce http://www.scriptsforapple.com Discussions on AppleScripting, with emphasis on tutorials for those new to scripting. Example scripts of general utility, as well as some that relate to specific applications (FileMaker Pro, AppleWorks, Script Editor, specialized scripts and others). Some discussion of HyperCard and AppleScript and the Classic (OS9) environment Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:06:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Extracting Text Using Offset and Reverse vs Text Item Delimiters http://www.scriptsforapple.com/extracting-text-using-offset-and-reverse-vs-text-item-delimiters/ http://www.scriptsforapple.com/extracting-text-using-offset-and-reverse-vs-text-item-delimiters/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:13:53 +0000 admin http://www.scriptsforapple.com/?p=1711 There are times when you want to extract part of a text string from another for some specific purpose. There are two basic methods and each has its advantages and disadvantages. We’ll start with a combination of offset and reverse to remove the suffix from “seattleSunset.jpg”:

set jpgFile to characters of "seattleSunset.jpg" –This gives us [...]]]> http://www.scriptsforapple.com/extracting-text-using-offset-and-reverse-vs-text-item-delimiters/feed/ 1718 An AppleScript for iTunes Playlists http://www.scriptsforapple.com/an-applescript-for-itunes-playlists/ http://www.scriptsforapple.com/an-applescript-for-itunes-playlists/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:53:49 +0000 admin http://www.scriptsforapple.com/?p=756 Here is a simple AppleScript for iTunes which chooses a pre-determined playlist from your iTunes library, then prompts for the volume level. After all of this is done, it plays the selected playlist at the specified volume level: tell application "iTunes" activate set visible of front window to true set view of front window to [...]]]> http://www.scriptsforapple.com/an-applescript-for-itunes-playlists/feed/ 90