Controlling or Executing AppleScripts from A Preference Pane
Controlling or Executing AppleScripts from A Preference Pane
- Subject: Controlling or Executing AppleScripts from A Preference Pane
- From: Johnny AppleScript <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:53:58 -0600
Hi,
[Not sure if this is the correct place to pose this question or not; please
redirect me as required.]
I would like to publish some freeware AppleScript utilities that do things
such that they should logically be found in the System Preferences to begin
with. (examples are changing settings to Finder windows, Date & Time, and
other bugs/flaws/oversights/hidden features by Apple in OS X Jaguar).
I figured out how to put together a simple preference pane from a tutorial
I found, but I'm having trouble finding direction in how to go about melding
the various parts into something cohesive.
I realize that I should probably be figuring out how to accomplish the same
end goals in Objective C, but I just don't have time to learn a new language
and its rules from the ground up right now. Besides, all my AppleScript
utilities do exactly what needs to be done right now; I just want a more
logical place to launch them from and, to some degree, interpret conditions
and results to be displayed in a Preference Pane, that, e.g., might be
called Finder Extras.
So far, I've not had any trouble giving them a pretty GUI interface in
either Smile (Thanks, Emmanuel!) or AS Studio, but, again, the logical place
to execute many of these changes is from the System Preferences app. In the
old Mac OS, each Control Panel was more or less just its own individual
application, anyway; the developer could simply add the app or an alias of
it to the CP Folder and the user could just logically access it from there
without the need to go to the Utilities or Applications folders.
Does anyone have any samples or links to tutorials that might help me?
TIA
JA
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