Re: Scripting PLE
Re: Scripting PLE
- Subject: Re: Scripting PLE
- From: Donald Hall <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:44:54 -0700
David,
You can use the defaults command to read and write properties. For example:
set theProperty to do shell script "defaults read " & "\"" &
prefFileName & "\" " & propertyName
where prefFileName is the name of the preferences file, such as
'com.apple.ProjectBuilder'
Don
At 10:00 PM -0800 2003/03/01, email@hidden wrote:
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Does anyone know how to script Property List Editor to open a .plist
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file and then hopefully make
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a change to an item in the file?
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Opening the file itself is not difficult, but it comes up with a
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single row with a disclosure
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triangle. I can't seem to find this element in UI Browser, nor in
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UIElementInspector. It also
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seems to be hard to find by clicking on a point (at least I haven't
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yet clicked anything by script
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that does anything.)
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After manually disclosing the file, the row is readily determined,
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as is the specific text item.
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However I am having problems changing this item by doing a set text
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of (enclosing items) to number
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either straight, quoted, or as a variable either straight or as text
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(or string).
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I don't pretend to be even a mediocre Applescripter, but I can
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change text in other programs. :)
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I couldn't find a dictionary for PLE, but I am willing to be
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informed that I don't know where to
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look.
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Any help?
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Thanks,
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David R. Pierce
--
Donald S. Hall, Ph.D.
Apps & More Software Design, Inc.
email@hidden
http://www.appsandmore.com
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