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Re: Modifying a .plist file
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Re: Modifying a .plist file


  • Subject: Re: Modifying a .plist file
  • From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:36:47 -0500

At 4:56 PM -0600 2/23/03, David R. Pierce wrote:
The situation is that I want my Cube to wake up early in the morning so that an
Applescript (which I have already written, and which works well) will go out to
the internet and get my e-mail, news and weather so that all of this will be
waiting for me when I get up. This is easily done by a program called iBeeZz
which is a preference pane. Unfortunately, I also want the computer to wake up
late in the afternoon to do the same things before I get home from work. At
this time my only recourse is to manually go into System Preferences, open
iBeeZz, and re-set the time to wake and I need to do this twice a day, every
day. I thought that I should be able to Applescript this, but neither iBeeZz
nor System Preferences seems to have an Applescript dictionary. Nor do they
seem to be amenable to the new GUI manipulation Applescript addition.

I don't have anything to offer regarding plists but I want to let you know that it is possible to script the iBeeZz pref pane using GUI scripting. I have a script under development to address the very issue that you mention - the need for multiple wake-up times. Unfortunately, the script is not complete or ready for prime time.

If you plan to pursue a GUI script solution, I suggest, in case you aren't aware, that you use Apple's UI Element Inspector or, better yet, Prefab's UI Browser. One or both of these tools will greatly decrease your development time.

PreFab: <http://www.prefab.com/uibrowser/>
Apple: <http://www.apple.com/applescript/GUI/>

--

Rob Jorgensen
Ohio, USA
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