Re: Lost in AppleScript Studio
Re: Lost in AppleScript Studio
- Subject: Re: Lost in AppleScript Studio
- From: Joseph Weaks <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:16:30 -0600
On Nov 15, 2004, at 9:04 PM, Ken Brooks wrote:
After five years' intermission, I returned to the world of AppleScript
today. And there I learned about AppleScript Studio and tried to use
it. I typed in the following elementary script:
tell application "Finder"
say "I live."
close the front window
end tell
But it didn't run, or at least it didn't actually make the Finder
close a window. It just brought up a blank window of its own and
stayed there.
Question: is AppleScript Studio even an appropriate vehicle for simple
scripts like this? Or only Cocoa/script hybrids? Should I stick with
ScriptEdit?
Ken,
If you are just wanting to create a faceless script that will run a
process, don't bother with using Xcode/Project Builder/Applescript
Studio. Just write it in Script Editor, or a third party editor such as
Smile.
Applescript Studio is for creating an application with windows and
buttons and text boxes and menus and the like. The application you
created did exactly what it should have done. By default, any new ASS
application has a single blank window. Furthermore, you did not have a
button or menu item attached to a handler that would call the actual
script snippet you were hoping would run. To learn more about what
Applescript Studio is for, read through:
"About Building Applications with Applescript Studio", most likely
found on your machine at:
file:///Developer/Documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/
StudioBuildingApps/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000889
Cheers,
Joe Weaks
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