You can put the script anywhere you like, though most folks put them
in a scripts directory, or if you compile it, then you could put it
in with your applications.
What I did with it was to compile it, then run it, and put it in the
doc. Then it's only a few keystrokes away to find out what time it is.
Louie did one better than that. He found an application called spark
that allows you to tie keystrokes (hot keys) to any program, and used
it to assign a keystroke to his version of the time command. I've
not gotten this far yet, but just having it in the doc is enough for
me at the moment.
To make it work faster, I could add an event to respond with the time
when it gets a run event from the system, then click the keep open
option before saving it as an app. This way it wouldn't take as long
to speak the time after the first run. If there is demand for this,
I'll add it, but for me, it works as is, so since I'm lazy, I just
left it that way. *grin*
To compile scripts, you need to load them into the script editor,
then do a save as. It thin gives you several options for saving the
script. Choose application, and you're done. You'll have to click
run each time to kick it off for some reason. The apple script
guide says this is supposed to only happen if you select to have a
startup screen, but for me it happens regardless of clicking the box
or not <shrug>.
Anyway, hope this helps.
On Jan 2, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
I realize this has been discussed before, but I'm still somewhat
confused; I apologize to have to bring this up again. when one gets
an apple script, such as the one Travis posted for date and time,
where does one put it and how does one use it?
Thanks.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".
