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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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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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Using Say and Listen Commands with iTunes

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In this post we look at the say and listen commands. It is a natural transition from the previous iTunes script. Before you try to run this script, go to the Speech Preferences and click on the Speech Recognition tab and click speech on. Also, if you have not used speech recognition before, click on the ‘Calibrate…’ button. It adjusts speech recognition to your personal voice to optimize its responsiveness. To refresh your memory, here is the script from the previous post, which we will use (in part) in this post. The key statements used in the script to follow are in bold text:

tell application "iTunes"
activate
set visible of front window to true
set view of front window to playlist "Hall & Oates"
copy (get view of front window) to thePlaylist
set soundValue to (choose from list {"25", "50", "75", "100"} with prompt "Select volume level:" OK button name "Play" cancel button name "Abort")
set soundValue to soundValue as integer
set sound volume to soundValue
play thePlaylist
end tell


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The new script:

tell application "iTunes"
activate
set visible of front window to true
set myMusic to (name of every playlist)
end tell
set the userResponse to voiceQuery("Which playlist would you like to hear?", myMusic, 30)
if the userResponse is false then error number -128
say "Playing " & userResponse & " please wait"
tell application "iTunes"
activate
set thePlaylist to userResponse
set view of front window to playlist thePlaylist
copy (get view of front window) to thePlaylist
play thePlaylist
end tell

on voiceQuery(userPrompt, theseItems, timeoutValue)
set the cancelCmds to {"Cancel"}
set the matchItems to cancelCmds & theseItems
try
tell application "SpeechRecognitionServer"
set the userResponse to listen for matchItems with prompt userPrompt giving up after timeoutValue displaying theseItems
end tell
if the userResponse is in the cancelCmds then
error "user cancelled"
end if
return userResponse
on error
display dialog "The music did not play!"
return false
end try
end voiceQuery

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The statement ‘
set myMusic to (name of every playlist)‘ gets all of the playlists on your hard drive and puts them into the variable myMusic.

The statement ‘voiceQuery("Which playlist would you like to hear?", myMusic, 30)‘ calls the function ‘on voiceQuery(userPrompt, theseItems, timeoutValue)‘ and places the values into the corresponding variable parameters.

voiceQuery(...) returns a value in the variable userResponse and, if it is not false, plays the desired playlist.

If you have questions or would like to suggest a post on another AppleScript issue, contact me at: hyperscripter@gmail.com or http://twitter.com/hyperscripter or to subscribe, click the By Email link at the top of the page

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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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