Re: Safari/Entourage question
Re: Safari/Entourage question
- Subject: Re: Safari/Entourage question
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 03:37:11 +0000
on Wed, 05 Nov 2003 08:42:16 +0000, phildobbin <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 5/11/03 02:03, "kai" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Try something like this, Phil (untested):
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>
[...]
>
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> tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to set s to window 1's selection
>
> if (count s) is 0 then set s to (display dialog "Search terms:" default
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> answer "")'s text returned
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> if (count s) is 0 then error number -128
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> set text item delimiters to "+"
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> set s to "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="; & s's words
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> set text item delimiters to {""}
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> tell application "Safari"
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> activate
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> tell document 1 to set URL to s
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> end tell
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>
This works perfectly. Thanks for the help, Kai.
Very pleased to hear that, Phil.
Of course, you could always make the script a bit more generic, so that it
(hopefully) works with any browser (whichever is the current default). To do
this, you could try replacing these lines from the above script:
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> tell application "Safari"
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> activate
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> tell document 1 to set URL to s
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> end tell
...with this:
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open location s
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kai
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