Nice. Glad to hear that you got a work around going.
I am playing with removing the say part of that string and setting all that up
as variables in the Apple Script itself. Seems to run a little faster.
Keith
On Sep 12, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Just tried is on Snow Leopard and
Rate argument works fine in Lion. I've adjusted it to various values and it's
great.
Teresa
On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Keith Watson wrote:
Ester,
I did not know that the rate switch was not available in earlier versions of
OSX. I actually found it by…wait for it…RTFMing. Grin. Doing a
Just tried is on Snow Leopard and got an error on the -r argument so it
must be new to Lion. For non-lion users I managed to prepending the rate
command to the text using sed which worked fine:
curl -s
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617
| grep -A 2
Hi Chris and Keith,
Chris, that was a clever use of sed and regular expressions to prepend the rate
argument to the beginning of the text being piped to the say command. Keith,
if you want to play around more with the other embedded commands for speech,
you'll find them in the Apple Developer
Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as
there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx
browser.
teresa
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Hi,
You know what,
For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and
current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty
much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather?
Ricardo Walker
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Hey Keith,
Thanks for the tip on the lynx app, it made me explore every command in the
usr/bin and gave me a few more shell script ideas.
Like the fact that it can also be mapped to anything, key, gesture, voice,
whatever :)
Best regards,
Yuma
On 11/09/2011, at 6:36 PM, Ricardo Walker
Johnathan,
Tried curl. Unfortunately the dump is not plain text as in lynx. It more
resembles xml than anything else. I am not far enough into learning Apple
Script to be able to handle parsing text strings yet, so chose this method.
Attempted to use python to do it, but it wanted to open a
That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right and interact,
you get a 6-day forecast. What more do people want?
Cheers,
Donna
On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi,
You know what,
For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the
Nope, the intent was to only have the temperature read to you. Not the entire
forecast. And I sort of like to have Tessa tell me what the temp is. Being from
South Africa on my mothers side it brings back fond memories.
Keith
On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi,
You
What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points out
that hitting f12 drops him on the weather widget and that is just great;
however, not everyone has that particular item there at all times. iN fact I
tend to keep the calendar widget as the one with focus. The other
True, it is a learning opportunity. though to me it seems like a lot of work
just to duplicate something that already exists on the Mac. Just my $.02.
Cheers,
donna
On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points
Donna, you are making the assumption that someone would always have that widget
always in focus. This may be a lot of work for you, but the ends justifies the
means. Your entitled to your opinion of course; however, aside from the
learning opportunity, you still are assuming that this widget is
All,
Like Scott said, this was an exercise in learning Apple Script and to
facilitate the request of another list member. They did not want all the
information that the weather widget gave. All they wanted was the outside
temperature. If the weather widget works for you then by all means
Then there's always playing with scripts when you have a bit of time on your
hands. That's basically what I was doing. I wanted to get the mac ports anyhow.
Teresa
On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right and
interact,
Hi Keith,
I'll just add that if you want the say command in your AppleScript to announce
the temperature in another voice, you can also set that as an argument and use
any of your installed system voices (including the InfoVox voices if you have
them). For example, if you're a French user in
, September 11, 2011 4:33 AM
Subject: Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Nope, the intent was to only have the temperature read to you. Not the
entire forecast. And I sort of like to have Tessa tell me what the temp
is. Being from South Africa on my mothers side it brings back fond
memories
It's just different schools of thought. Some mac users don't want to learn the
terminal nor scripting as it is quite a complicated albeit powerful tool, while
those who do have a comprehensive set of skills in unix and have delved into
appplescript can actually find their ways into making their
Works just fine here, thanks to the person who posted the whole thing on
Dashboard, I used to hate it, now that it's configured differently, I like it
vary much.
On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:40 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote:
Hey Keith,
Thanks for the tip on the lynx app, it made me explore every command
Ester,
I did not know that the rate switch was not available in earlier versions of
OSX. I actually found it by…wait for it…RTFMing. Grin. Doing a man on say
gave me all that info. The value for the rate is in words per minute according
to the man page. Quite frankly I think they are full of
, September 11, 2011 4:33 AM
Subject: Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Nope, the intent was to only have the temperature read to you. Not the
entire forecast. And I sort of like to have Tessa tell me what the temp is.
Being from South Africa on my mothers side it brings back fond
Hi All,
Disclaimer
Those of you who choose to follow these steps do so at their own risk. I take
no responsibility for any problems or issues you may encounter. These steps are
straight forward but not for the faint of heart.
Ok, so now that I got that out of the way lets begin.
Wow, I'm impressed. I might get brave and try this. :)
Thanks,
Traci
- Original Message -
From: Keith Watson
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 7:43 AM
Subject: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Hi All,
Disclaimer
I don't believe you need to actually use lynx for this...
And if you don't need lynx then you don't need the developer tools and a UNIX
port program (macport and/or fink). The Macintosh has built-in for the command
line the curl command that can take a ftp and/or an http request and download
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