Re: Modifying a .plist file
Re: Modifying a .plist file
- Subject: Re: Modifying a .plist file
- From: James Burns <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:03:03 -0500
One way you can write to a plist file is by using the terminal command
"default." Do a "man default" in the terminal for more info.
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James Burns
http://www.jamesburnsdesign.com
On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 10:19 PM,
email@hidden wrote:
From: "David R. Pierce" <email@hidden>
Subject: Modifying a .plist file
To: email@hidden
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.
By chance I found that iBeeZz stores its data (including the wake up
time) in a
text file with a .plist extension. Therefore, I should be able to
open the file
in word or text processor, change the hour (which must be in 24 hour
format) and
then save the file. Unfortunately, although I had several programs
that I
thought might work, all of them had problems. Either they wouldn't
open the
file or they didn't have Applescript support. I downloaded the demo
of BBEdit,
and it worked just fine, but I don't think I want to spend $180 for
what is
really a single use. Is it possible to just use plain vanilla
Applescript to
open the file for writing and skip the word processor totally. And
will it be
saved back with the Unix newline instead of the Mac carriage return?
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