Comments for The AppleScript Studio Workshop

Comment on For Loops in AppleScript: Repeat by lindenthal

lindenthal — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:36:25 +0000

excellent list

I had a look for something like this:

repeat until exists sheet 1 of window 1 but no more than 20 times

like this:
repeat 20 times
delay 0.1
if exists sheet 1 of window 1 then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat

Comment on An AppleScript Replace Text Method by Montana

Montana — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:14:42 +0000

Might I suggest a small edit? How about telling the function to throw an error if it did not find any instances of the string to be replaced? I wrote “set originalString to subject” at the top of the function. At the bottom, I wrote:
“if subject is originalString then
error find & ” is not in the subject string.”
end if

Comment on An AppleScript Replace Text Method by Whizzbizz

Whizzbizz — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:48:28 +0000

…and I promise: I will always love the Mac!

Comment on An AppleScript Replace Text Method by Whizzbizz

Whizzbizz — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:47:32 +0000

Finally a simple solution to my text scripting “problem”.

Thank you!

Comment on For Loops in AppleScript: Repeat by Alex

Alex — Wed, 25 May 2011 07:29:16 +0000

There’s also the “repeat with «item» in «list»” form.

Comment on An AppleScript Replace Text Method by Fabrice

Fabrice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:36:11 +0000

Hi,

thank you for this excellent script.
I am actually trying to do the same but base on arrays.
I’d like to do multiple substitution in one go.
I could surely use a loop, but it’s rather slow (we’re talking about several hundreds of items)
Thanks again!

Comment on Responding to a Clicked Button by HeatherSoft

HeatherSoft — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:29:16 +0000

Just double-click on the MainMenu.nib file inside of your xCode project!

Comment on Adding a Check Updates Feature by laplo

laplo — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:00:49 +0000

This doesnt work for me…
I dont know what im doing wrong.
my app just keep saying im up to date even when i create new feeds, its so irritating.

i did exactly what the tutorial says tho, and i use Feeder too.

any idea of what could be wrong ?

Comment on The Development of this Weblog by Max

Max — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:47:56 +0000

Hey K,

I didn’t know that your welcoming other people to write some tutorials or tips for the blog. I’ve got two ideas for further articles on how to do things with AppleScript. One idea was a simple tutorial explaining how to search and replace any file. That may be a bit AppleScript without Studio oriented – but I think it’s one of those things where I looked ages on Google.
The second idea I had was something very simple and really beginner like creating a textfield with a button and when the button is clicked, the computer speaks the contents of the textfield. It’s simple – but can get people started into AppleScript.

Max (the guy from the Sparkle article)

Comment on Reacting to Keyboard Input by Gé van Gasteren

Gé van Gasteren — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:51:36 +0000

Thanks for the good description; I’ll try that. Only, your project probably only runs in Leopard? In my XCode 2.5 it doesn’t. Anyway, I have to learn everything still.

Comment on Adding a Help Book to your AppleScript Studio Application by abi ludwig

abi ludwig — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:09:37 +0000

hi – thanks for the article, in number 1 above you say “since my application will be called “Help Folder Example”” but i think you really meant ‘Help Book Example’ … that got me for a bit so just wanted to let you know of the typo. thanks again.

Comment on For Loops in AppleScript: Repeat by PeterVk

PeterVk — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:03:46 +0000

Simple, clean advice. Thanks.

Really nice site, mate!

Comment on Adding a Check Updates Feature by RJay Hansen

RJay Hansen — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:05:02 +0000

This is for Jordan T: I used this tutorial and the old documentation on the Sparkle website at to get this running in my Studio app using Tiger and Xcode 2.5.

http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/oldsite/wiki/Documentation/Basics

Comment on Adding a Check Updates Feature by Jordan T

Jordan T — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:03:31 +0000

Hi. Good tutorial. Do you have one for Tiger? If not, please write one!

Thx.

Comment on Search a String: Offset by has

has — Sat, 24 May 2008 09:03:00 +0000

“I can’t seem to get that call method command to compile in a test application.”

If cutting and pasting, beware WordPress’s curly quotes. AppleScript requires straight double quotes for string literals.

Comment on Search a String: Offset by K. M. Lawson

K. M. Lawson — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:17:21 +0000

Intersting, I can’t seem to get that call method command to compile in a test application.

Comment on Search a String: Offset by K. M. Lawson

K. M. Lawson — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:26:08 +0000

I will have to look into some more of thos NSString methods within Cocoa! Thanks for passing that info along!

Comment on Search a String: Offset by has

has — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:47:35 +0000

Text manipulation is definitely not one of AppleScript’s strong points, and its out-of-the-box support for it really sucks. However, if you’re working in Studio you can easily take advantage of Cocoa’s own NSString methods and third-party text processing frameworks such as RegexKit. For example, to uppercase an AppleScript string:

set myText to call method “uppercaseString” of myText

For non-Studio-based projects, your best bet would be to use a Unicode-aware scriptable text editor, e.g. TextWrangler, or scripting addition/scriptable faceless background application, e.g. TextCommands.

HTH