Thanks Esther and what are you waiting for? What am I going to do without your amazing knowledge, so get crackin' and upgrade. :) On Sep 1, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Esther wrote:
> > Hi Scott, > > You wrote: > >> >> Hi Esther, oddly I dont' seem to have the Apple Script folder in >> Applications any longer. WOnder where it wandered off too? GUess I'll >> have to poke about for it, but seems odd it has gone missing. > > Based on Marie's post on what has been moved around in Snow Leopard > (which I only read after I'd posted), this has all moved. The example > scripts folder were always linked to /Library/Scripts so I would > look there if there isn't a similar link under the Utilities folder. > Here are the relevant passages from the PC World "Snow Leopard: What's > Gone Where?" article that Marie linked to: > > <begin excerpt> > The Applications folder > > AppleScript Folder In 10.5, this folder contained four distinct > programs: AppleScript Utility, Example Scripts, Folder Actions Setup, > and Script Editor. In 10.6, this folder is gone, its pieces scattered > elsewhere. > > The biggie of the group, Script Editor, can now be found in the > Utilities folder, under the new name AppleScript Editor. > > In 10.5, AppleScript Utility let you change the default script editor, > enable GUI scripting, set up Folder Actions, and enable or disable the > Script menu in the main menu bar. In 10.6, you set the default script > editor and control the Script menu from the General tab of the new > AppleScript Editor's Preferences panel. Folder Actions Setup is now an > entry in the Finder's contextual menu; Control-click on any folder and > select Folder Actions to configure them. > > The only scripting piece that seems to have vanished completely is GUI > scripting control. GUI scripting is tied in with Universal Access; you > enable it by enabling access for assistive devices in the Universal > Access System Preferences panel. > > <end excerpt> > > HTH. Would be more useful if I had already done my Snow Leopard > installation. > > > > Cheers, > > Esther > > >> >> >> On Sep 1, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Esther wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Marie, >>> >>> To find the AppleScript editor, I use Finder (in Leopard) to go the >>> Applications folder (Command-Shift-A) and navigate to the >>> "AppleScript" folder. Use VO-Backslash (on an English language >>> keyboard) to expand the folder or else bring up the Commands menu >>> (VO- >>> H twice) and select the menu item for "Toggle Disclosure Triangle". >>> If >>> you open the AppleScript utility a dialog window pops up that has >>> checkboxes you can set to "Show Script menu in menu bar" and "Show >>> Computer scripts". Checking these options will make the sample >>> scripts on your system available to you from an AppleScript menu on >>> the status menu bar. On my machine in Leopard, the same >>> Applications >>> folder has an alias to the Example Scripts folder so you can examine >>> the scripts (e.g., navigate down to a folder like "Address Book >>> Scripts" and select a script like "Import Addresses.scpt"; opening >>> one >>> of the scripts lets you view it in the Script Editor). The Script >>> Editor application is also in the Applications folder, but if you >>> start it up, it will be blank. >>> >>> If Scott says that the AppleScript Editor is in the Utilities folder >>> this structure may have changed in Snow Leopard. >>> >>> The way you would have to use AppleScripts to set up options in >>> Keyboard Commander is to write or find existing Applescripts and >>> bind >>> them to keys. Usually, if you copy an AppleScript to a folder like >>> ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts (under your user account) or /Library/ >>> iTunes/Scripts (for all users) the AppleScripts show up in an >>> additional menu for that application (in this case, for iTunes). >>> They >>> work like regular menu options -- select a track, and apply the >>> AppleScript from its menu. >>> >>> For example there is the "RestartAt" AppleScript at Tim Kilburn's >>> VoiceOver Downloads page: >>> >>> http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/downloads.html >>> >>> Under Leopard, I copied this to my user account's Library/iTunes/ >>> Scripts folder (which I created) and used the Keyboard Shortcuts tab >>> of the Keyboard & Mouse menu under Systems Preferences to assign >>> it a >>> shortcut (Command-Option-R), so I could restart play for any >>> selected >>> track at the time I wanted by selecting the track and using Command- >>> Option-R. Presumably, under Snow Leopard, I could assign the >>> AppleScript to a shortcut via Keyboard Commander. >>> >>> HTH >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Esther >>> >>> Scott Howell wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> The Apple Script Editor is in the Utilities folder. >>>> On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Marie Howarth wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> no developers tools, there was an optional install but x code was >>>>> the >>>>> only thing there. very confusing. lol >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> OK, I want to use apple script to set up some options on the >>>>>>>>>>> keyboard >>>>>>>>>>> commander. But how do I do that? apple script is a folder >>>>>>>>>>> that >>>>>>>>>>> no >>>>>>>>>>> matter what I do, I canot get to open. it takes me back to >>>>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>>>> devices >>>>>>>>>>> in sidebar for some odd reason, no matter how I try to open >>>>>>>>>>> it. >>>>>>>>>>> any >>>>>>>>>>> help would be greatly appreciated. I want to take advantage >>>>>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>>>>> using >>>>>>>>>>> apple script with VO to set up commands, but not sure how to >>>>>>>>>>> do >>>>>>>>>>> it. >>>>>>>>>>> any help would be great :) >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
