Re: iCal alarm opening URL with script. HOW?

Subject: Re: iCal alarm opening URL with script. HOW?

From: Peter Baxter <email@hidden>

Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:30:30 +1000

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Hi Tim,

1. An excellent beginners book with lots of good ideas is Applescript: The Missing Manual by Adam Goldstein. It is available from Pogue press which has lots of other good AS books.

2. Another starter is to enable the apple scripts that are supplied with your mac and there are lots of them including this one below which starts to answer your question. the script below opens a URL which may be kind of familiar. Just select the text and select Mail -> Services -> script editor -> Make new applescript. Now you have a script that will go to a URL. Just change the URL address to the one you want to go to.

property target_URL : "http://store.apple.com/"

open location target_URL

Now open iCal and make a date in the heading "Alarm" select run applescript and select your script. It will now open your URL on the set date.

3. Going back to the supplied applescripts in the menu bar, you can enable these for easy access through Applescript Utility which allows you to put the scripts in the menubar for universal access.

On 09/06/2007, at 9:29 AM, Tim Whiteknight wrote:

I am trying to learn how to write scripts. I have apple scripts editor but can't figure out how to use it. I get lost on the Help menu. Is there an easier way to learn scripts. Is there a tutorial out there for that or a web site to help with that. Not much on reading books but will. Listen to audio tapes or Video.
What I am trying to do is in iCal on the alarms I want to run a script that will go to iCal url and open the address either in safari or Firefox at a certain time. On what ever the address is in the url.
Is there help out there. Send script to email@hidden I will copy it to the editor and run it from there. Thank you for any help.
Tim Whiteknight

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