On 7 Dec 2017, at 16:37, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@...> wrote:

On Dec 7, 2017, at 17:34, 2551phil <2551phil@...> wrote:

Good work! I shall retweet that.

BTW, you don’t need to specify both Program and Program Arguments in your plist. If you leave out the Program key (and the osascript string that follows it), launchd will take the first item in the Program Arguments array as the Program (which you correctly have as the path to osascript).

The way you’re doing it, you’re technically passing /usr/bin/osascript as the first argument to /usr/bin/osascript, which you don’t really want to do.

Ok, I found where I got this idea. It's in the http://www.launchd.info link:

When you provide both keys, the value of Program is the executable to be started. The first string in ProgramArguments will show up as argv[0] in the executable. If this makes no sense to you, just think that launchd will ignore it.

And indeed, it did not make sense to me :) But since it works I thought my comments in the code were not entirely wrong.

JC

On 7 Dec 2017, at 12:35, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@...> wrote:

I just wrote an article on that issue. Thank you all for your help.

(any comments are welcome)

https://mac4translators.blogspot.jp/2017/12/automation-scheduling-file-and.html

On Dec 2, 2017, at 12:19, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@...> wrote:

Ok, so the only way to actually launch a script at a given date/time is to use launchd I guess ?

On Dec 2, 2017, at 12:13, Shane Stanley <sstanley@...> wrote:

What I want to do is to script the creation of that event, and for that I need to specify the filepath property of the "open file alert" but *that* doesn't work.

As noted elsewhere, you can't do that since macOS 10.9. The filepath property is a vestige of bygone carefree days.

Jean-Christophe Helary
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@brandelune http://mac4translators.blogspot.com

On November 26, 2017 at 8:46:19 PM, Christopher Stone (listmeister@...) wrote:

On 11/26/2017, at 17:09, John Stewart <psamech@...> wrote:

I’m looking at the desktop not just any random Finder window.  I have a script that cleans my desktop by moving file/icons around, it won’t work if the Desktop isn’t set to snap top grid.

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Hey John,

Try this:

----------------------------------------------------------------

# Auth: Christopher Stone

# dCre: 2017/11/26 19:40

# dMod: 2017/11/26 19:44

# Appl: Finder

# Task: Get Arrangement of Window of Desktop

# Libs: None

# Osax: None

# Tags: @ccstone, @Applescript, @Script, @Finder, @Arrangement, @Window, @Desktop

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tell application "Finder"

    tell desktop

        tell its window

            if its current view = icon view then

                tell its icon view options

                    its arrangement

                end tell

            end if

        end tell

    end tell

end tell

----------------------------------------------------------------

--

Best Regards,

Chris

On November 26, 2017 at 4:01:16 PM, Robert Poland (rpoland@...) wrote:

tell application "Finder"

activate

if ((current view of window index 1) = list view) then

set wdw to window 1

select wdw -- in case the window was not selected

tell wdw to tell its list view options

set m to width of column id modification date column

set width of column id modification date column to m + 1

set m to width of column id modification date column

set s to width of column id size column

set width of column id size column to s + 1

set s to width of column id size column

end tell

end if

end tell