Re: Application Script
Re: Application Script
- Subject: Re: Application Script
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:43:20 +1000
You seem to misunderstand what AppleScript is. A lot of people do. It does
not mimic your key and mouse strokes. You can choose things from menus and
click on buttons. I believe something like QuickKeys can do that.
AppleScript actually speaks to the application directly. It does this by
using a dictionary supplied by the application in order to work out how to
tell it what to do. You can find an application's dictionary by opening the
script editor, choose "Open Dictionary" from the file menu. Then navigate to
the applications folder. If the application is scriptable you will then see
the application in the file list. You can then select it to see a list of
commands and objects you can use with the application.
on 31/07/2001 03:25, George Priggen at email@hidden wrote:
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I am new to writing application scripts with Applescript.
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We have a contact database program called Daytimer. What we need to do is:
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1. Open the application.
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2. Go to the File menu and click on Export Entries and click on ASCII.
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3. Then click on button to define search criteria.
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4. Deselect five field entries.
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5. Click on search button.
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6. Click on first field of column that has 20 fields in it and move each
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field over to right hand column.
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7. Click on button to export.
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8. Choose file name and folder destination.
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9. Click on Ok.
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I am not sure if this can be done with Daytimer. Any suggestions?
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Matthew Smith