Category: AppleScript Notes

AppleScript Notes

do shell script – hints

Post author By Chris Janton
Post date May 2, 2003

A copy of an email from Chris Espinosa from Apple.

do shell script hints

AppleScript Notes

Send Attachment with Mail.app

Post author By Chris Janton
Post date May 2, 2003
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Using AppleScript to send an email with an attachment

AppleScript Notes

Another Terminal.app Scripting Example

Post author By Chris Janton
Post date May 2, 2003

See this script Terminal Window Here for a more detailed example of a Terminal.app AppleScript.

AppleScript Notes

POSIX path or POSIX file

Post author By Chris Janton
Post date May 1, 2003

POSIX path or POSIX file

set f to choose file — f is a file object

set p to POSIX path of f — p is Unicode text of the path

set f1 to POSIX file p — f1 is a file object again

set qp to quoted form of p — qp is a path string you can send to Terminal even if it contains spaces or special characters

AppleScript Notes

Logging out via AppleScript

Post author By Chris Janton
Post date May 1, 2003

From Chris Nebel of Apple’s AppleScript Engineering group

ignoring application responses
tell application “loginwindow” to <>
end ignoring

The double pointy brackets around the raw event call should be replaced by option-backslash and shift-option-backslash.The “rlgo” is short for “really log out”; if you want the “are you sure you want to log out” dialog, use aevtlogo instead. A future version of AppleScript will have a real command similar to “shut down”.

AppleScript Notes

Extending BBEdit with Glossary Entries That Call AppleScripts

Post author By Chris Janton
Post date May 1, 2003

Studio Log – Articles

Extending BBEdit with Glossary Entries That Call AppleScripts

AppleScript Notes Unix Notes

Scripting Terminal.app

tell application "Terminal"
 do script with command "top -u -s10 10"
 set number of rows of window 1 to 18
 set number of columns of window 1 to 80
 set background color of window 1 to "black"
 set normal text color of window 1 to "yellow"
 set custom title of window 1 to "Top"
 set miniaturized of window 1 to true
end tell