Using Automator to create programming-free workflows. Although computers have been touted for years as the ultimate tool to perform redundant tasks, you may feel as though they have generated new monotonous tasks.
In previous chapters, you learned about technologies in Mac OS X And though you may be impressed by components in all those technologies; individually, the components don't do much by themselves — they tend to require user input. I assume this is true for every "tell application" block, not just for the finder. The more experienced programmers on this forum will tell you this has always been the case. It's just that sloppy amateurs like myself have been getting away with bloated "tell application" blocks for a while.
Looks like it may well have come back to bite us with this new scripting addition security. Absolutely right. How strict is this? Suppose you have a script that fetches a file name, manipulates the name string then renames the file. What about repeat loops? For example, you want to rename all or some files inside a folder? Is it better to have the loop inside the tell block or the tell block inside the repeat loop?
It could be a "virtual" memory, or a bad habit I tried to rationalize. After an evening of banging my head against the wall, I came here to ask if someone was working on a tutorial to get some of us started, only to find out Craig already made a nice little tutorial in the "unScripted" section of this forum. Count me in as another sloppy amateur that is nervous about this.
I have a rather large script, that I've built as I've learned. I know there are large tell Finder blocks in it, mainly because of my stumbling blocks early of knowing what had to be done by the finder and what did not. My company is not updating to SL for a whle, but i would like to start removing this sloppy code where I can.
However, I'm still not sure I would know without tons of trial and error, mostly error what can be removed without a resulting error. So I read that. In order to preserve compatibility with existing scripts, AppleScript redirects most of these commands to the current application, that is, the process running the script. I assume this means I would be able to run my script, and looking through the Event Log and see what parts can be extracted safely from the tell block, because they are reported as "double sends".
I assume this can only be done from within Snow Leopard's new Applescript editor correct? Is there any way of determining this in a similar manner using Leopard? Targeted scripts are excellent for quick development as they do not require the use of tell blocks or using terms clauses.
In Mac OS X v Once selected, you will be prompted to name and save the new applet. Finally, an easy way to quickly create your favorite types of scripts! AppleScript Editor in Lion introduces a New from Template menu that contains a variety of useful script templates, including templates for creating Mail rule actions, iChat response scripts, Aperture import actions, and file processing droplets.
Selecting a template from the menu will prompt you for a name and location for the duplicated template file. Once provided the duplicated script file will open in the AppleScript Editor:. An iChat event handler script for automatically responding to specified buddies. For scripters wanting a simple way to target scripts at a particular application, AppleScript Editor in Lion implements a target application menu, beneath the toolbar in a script window, from which you can select the application that will be the target of all the script statements.
This feature can be enabled in the AppleScript Editor editing preference pane by selecting the checkbox titled: Show tell application pop-up menu.
When a script is targeted at a specific application, you don't need to include tell blocks or tell statements for the targeted applicaiton.
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