On 18/11/2007, at 10:54 PM, Jan Erik Moström wrote: I would like to start running some applescripts at certain times, what alternatives are there for doing the actual scheduling?
This has worked without any problems, although the machine running it is set not to go to sleep so I have not tested if it will wake up a sleeping machine to run the script.
I wrote a script to make rescheduling the iCal event easier. Here tis.
display dialog "Delete all existing iCal backup script schedules or Make a new backup schedule?" buttons {"Cancel", "Delete All", "Make New"} default button 3 if the button returned of the result is "Delete All" then tell application "iCal" set backup_cal to first calendar whose title is "Backups" try delete (every event of backup_cal whose summary is "backup") end try end tell else set scriptPath to POSIX path of (choose file with prompt "Choose your backup Applescript." without invisibles and multiple selections allowed) as Unicode text display dialog "In 24 hour time, what hour would you like to backup. (e.g. 15 for 3 PM, 22.30 for 10:30 PM)" default answer "23" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2 copy the text returned of the result to backup_hour set date_string to date string of (current date) set start_time to date (date_string & " " & backup_hour) set duration to "+.50" set end_time to (start_time) + 50 * minutes tell application "iCal" set backup_cal to first calendar whose title is "Backups" try exists backup_cal on error create calendar with name "Backups" set backup_cal to first calendar whose title is "Backups" end try set theEvent to make new event at end of backup_cal with properties {summary:"backup", start date:start_time, end date:end_time, recurrence:"FREQ=DAILY;INTERVAL=1"} --"FREQ=DAILY;INTERVAL=1"} tell theEvent make new open file alarm at end of open file alarms with properties {trigger interval:-0.01, filepath:scriptPath} end tell end tell display dialog "The selected application will run every day at " & (time string of start_time) buttons {"OK"} default button 1 end if
John Cochrane
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