Re: Keeping a text-entry in the background, or a work-around
Re: Keeping a text-entry in the background, or a work-around
- Subject: Re: Keeping a text-entry in the background, or a work-around
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:29:45 -0800
At 10:42 AM -0700 11/29/07, Clint Hoxie wrote:
>I've copied a script from Alvin Alexander and then modified it a bit. It is intended to open some URLs for me on a repeating basis. I have the script saved as an application bundle which is called as an alarm by iCal. My difficulty is that the script requires a keyboard command to enter the URL, which means that I can't be touching the machine when the script runs, or I likely interfere with its successful execution. I looked for a solution online, but don't have enough experience to know what resources I need. Can anyone help?
Open a blank window in front:
tell application "Safari"
make new document at end of documents
end tell
Open a window and load a URL into it:
tell application "Safari"
make new document at end of documents with properties {URL:u}
end tell
I don't mess with tabs. My "Morning Reading" script opens a stack of windows that I can close as I read them using this handler:
on showURL(u)
tell application "Safari"
make new document at end of documents with properties {URL:u}
set bounds of window 1 to {1, 22, 1181, 1198}
end tell
end showURL
Then I choose what to load based on the day of the week:
set currentDate to current date
set currentDay to weekday of currentDate
set isWinter to month of currentDate is in {October, November, December, January, February, March, April}
tell application "Safari"
close windows -- I close all windows since I do this manually
end tell
-- URLs open in reverse order, some only on specific days
if isWinter then
showURL("http://www.seanet.com/~jonpugh/SkiSummary.html";)
end if
showURL("http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html";)
if currentDay is Wednesday then
showURL("http://www.aip.org/physnews/update/";)
end if
showURL("http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/";)
showURL("http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/getfuzzy/";)
showURL("http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/";)
if currentDay is Sunday then
showURL("http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/";)
end if
showURL("http://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse/";)
if currentDay is Monday then
showURL("http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/";)
end if
--showURL("http://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/";)
showURL("http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/";)
showURL("http://www.schlockmercenary.com/";)
if currentDay Saturday and currentDay Sunday then
showURL("http://wapsisquare.com/";)
showURL("http://www.crazyapplerumors.com/";)
showURL("http://www.macfixit.com/";)
showURL("http://www.iphoneatlas.com/";)
showURL("http://www.macintouch.com/";)
if currentDay = Tuesday then
showURL("http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-current.html";)
end if
end if
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