This tutorial shows you how to add the Sparkle framework to an AppleScript Studio application using XCode 3.1.
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This tutorial shows you how to add the Sparkle framework to an AppleScript Studio application using XCode 3.1.
This example project and accompanying explanation shows how to set the first responder (the active cursor) in an individual table cell.
This describes how to set the first responder (the active cursor) for a text field.
This example project and explanation shows you how to add a Help Book to your application, thereby activating the help menu.
This posting and downloadable sample project shows you how to how to react to user keyboard input.
This show the important basic step of activating a handler so that code can be added to react to various events.
This posting and downloadable sample project shows how to make simple Cocoa method calls directly in AppleScript Studio.
This posting offers a replace text method written by Bruce Phillips.
As I fiddle with AppleScript Studio, I have been reading AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition by Matt Neuburg. Here is a piece of advice he offers after he explains the complexities of scope for properties, global, and local variables in chapter 10: The ideal way to manage scope, in my view, would be to […]
I admit it. I’m one of those lost HyperCard fans, sulkily roaming through the world awaiting the return of the Messiah. That is why I’m playing with AppleScript Studio, which, for an amateur like me is incredibly unsatisfying and nowhere near the ease and intuitive beauty of the old HyperCard or SuperCard environment (though SuperCard […]
I don’t like AppleScript, to be perfectly honest. However, its deceptively English-like language was something that reminded me of the HyperCard glory days of my childhood, which where the only reason a non-programming historian like myself every made me want to tinker with coding. I would love to really get good at languages like Python […]
This posting explains how you can get a button to trigger a menu item when pressed using the “perform action” command.
This posting shows you how you can add a toolbar in Interface Builder if you have OS X 10.5 Leopard and mentions some of the problems of this approach.
This posting introduces the applescript “offset” command for searching strings.
This posting introduces the way to create loops in Applescript.
This posting demonstrates how you can respond to a chosen menu.
More basics. After you create an button in Interface Builder, in the last tab of the inspector give it a name, select the applescript in your project where you will be adding the script for the button, and then give it an event handler by checking Action: Clicked in the list of possible Event Handlers […]
This is pretty basic, but we all need to start somewhere. To change the contents of a text field (any NSTextField, including Labels), simple issue this kind of command: set contents of text field “myTextField” of window “myWindow” to “Hello, World.” Make sure the “name” (not the “title”) of your target object (in this case […]
Found a useful posting at Coding AppleScript on centering windows in AppleScript Studio. tell every window to center I used this tip to figure out how to automatically center my splash window when the application first opens: on will open theObject if the name of theObject is “homeWindow” then tell theObject to center end if […]
Is it just me, or are there very few weblogs out there for people trying to learn applescript? There are none, that I can find, which are dedicated to learning Applescript Studio. I am only an amateur when it comes to programming and I am new to applescript. However, when I’m not doing my historical […]