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Re: System Events - Property Lists

Dave
 

Ok, I now think it IS because I don’t have a Property List File Object,

Creation:

set myParentDictionary to make new property list item with properties {kind:record}

— File Object in 
set myPropertyListFile to make new property list file with properties {contents:myParentDictionary, name:pMWLPrefsFilePOSIXPath of me}

tell application "System Events"
tell property list file pPrefsFileObject of me
set pModOrderFileURL of me to value of property list item "pModOrderFileURL"
set pModOrderList of me to value of property list item "pModOrderList"
set pModInfoList of me to value of property list item "pModInfoList"
end tell
end tell

—Test Reading Back here, works ok
tell property list file myPropertyListFile of me
set pModOrderFileURL of me to (value of property list item "pModOrderFileURL")
set pModOrderList of me to value of property list item "pModOrderList"
set pModInfoList of me to value of property list item "pModInfoList"
end tell


It does this if it doesn’t find a prefs file, to create one.

Then of subsequent Run of the Script I want to restore them:

—
—  This doesn’t work since I’m passing the File Path String instead of a File Object
--
tell application "System Events"
tell property list file pMWLPrefsFilePOSIXPath of me
set pModOrderFileURL of me to (value of property list item "pModOrderFileURL")
set pModOrderList of me to value of property list item "pModOrderList"
set pModInfoList of me to value of property list item "pModInfoList"
end tell
end tell

But I don’t have the File Object that was around (myPropertyListFile) when it was created. So, given the file on the disk, how to I get a new a File Object? 

I am assuming you can read back the file?!?!? It doesn’t actually say you can, it would be typical of Apple to give you something to write a property list but not give you one to read it back again, and when it comes to AppleScript it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

Fed up with poor documentation…..

All the Best
Dave
Re: System Events - Property Lists

Dave
 

Hi, 

it doesn’t look if it is:

=I’m guessing its because it expects a Property List File Object, not a Path String, however I’m at a loss as to know how to get this object, when it was created I was making a new file, but now I want to reference the same file, bet I can’t find a way of objecting the Object for an existing plist file.

Since it accepts a property list. I can write it ok and look at the file in XCode, however when I come to read back the values it gives error:

value of property list item "pModOrderFileURL" of property list file "/Users/surfacedetail/Documents/MWL/MWLPrefs/MWLPrefs.plist”

Its like it doesn’t release that “value” is a property of the Object. This is confusing, should it be a Property File Object or a File Path? Or can it be either. I can’t find any documentation on this and hardly any examples. The one decent example I found does it this way.

I’ve been stuck on this for over 2 hours and can’t fathom what it needs to make it happy! I really loath this aspect of apple script poor docs, unhelpful error message and no support (except places like this).

Oh well, could be worse I suppose.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

All the Best
Dave
System Events - Property Lists

Dave
 

Hi All,

I have a question about the System Events Property List Suite.

I have code to setup a property list file and it seems to work ok.

It creates it and sets it to the initial values:

set myParentDictionary to make new property list item with properties {kind:record}
set myPropertyListFile to make new property list file with properties {contents:myParentDictionary, name:pMWLPrefsFilePOSIXPath of me}
tell property list items of myPropertyListFile
make new property list item at end with properties {kind:string, name:"pModOrderFileURL", value:pModOrderFileURL of me}
make new property list item at end with properties {kind:list, name:"pModOrderList", value:pModOrderList of me}
make new property list item at end with properties {kind:list, name:"pModInfoList", value:pModInfoList of me}
end tell

To update values to:

on SetPersistentValue(thePropertyName, theValue)
tell application "System Events"
tell property list file (pMWLPrefsFilePOSIXPath of me)
set value of property list item thePropertyName to theValue
end tell
end tell
end SetPersistentValue

This all work ok (or seems to), however when I come to restore the values:

tell application "System Events"
tell property list file pPrefsFileObject of me
set pModOrderFileURL of me to value of property list item "pModOrderFileURL"
set pModOrderList of me to value of property list item "pModOrderList"
set pModInfoList of me to value of property list item "pModInfoList"
end tell
end tell

I get an error:

value of property list item "pModOrderFileURL" of property list file "/Users/surfacedetail/Documents/MWL/MWLPrefs/MWLPrefs.plist”.

I’m guessing its because it expects a Property List File Object, not a Path String, however I’m at a loss as to know how to get this object, when it was created I was making a new file, but now I want to reference the same file, bet I can’t find a way of objecting the Object for an existing plist file.

Any help greatly appreciated.

All the Best
Dave
Re: Testing the list

Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@...>
 

Yes it is.

On Apr 28, 2020, at 22:31, Steve Mills via groups.io <sjmills@...> wrote:

Is this thing on?

Jean-Christophe Helary
-----------------------------------------------
http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune
Re: Testing the list

Willis Grant
 

Yep

From: applescript@apple-dev.groups.io <applescript@apple-dev.groups.io> on behalf of Steve Mills via groups.io <sjmills@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 9:31 AM
To: AppleScript List <applescript@apple-dev.groups.io>
Subject: [applescript] Testing the list
 
Is this thing on?

--
Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac geek
Re: Help with POSIX File/Folder Paths

Dave
 

I posted this a few days ago, I’ve sorted it out now, took a while for my brain to re-enter AppleScript Mode!



On 26 Apr 2020, at 19:55, Dave <dave@...> wrote:

Opps, found a typeo: 

Folder actually looks like this:

Test1.tp2
Test1      (Folder)
Test2.tp2
Test3.tp2
Test4.tp2
Test4    (Folder)

and the return should be:

myFileList: Test1.tp2, Test4.tp2
myFolderList: Test1,Test4





On 26 Apr 2020, at 19:34, Dave <dave@...> wrote:

Hi,

I’m modifying a large existing script. The Script does a lot of File Munging and passes things around as POSIX file/folder paths.

I haven’t done any AppleScript in a very long time and I don’t have access to my past work.

I know I have done this before but I just can’t remember what the trick is!

Basically I want  to scan a Folder and check if:

There is a file with a “.to2” (or specified) extension and if so, check if there is also a folder of the same name and if there is, add the Full POSIX file path to one list and the Full POSIX Folder path to another.

So, if we have a base folder of " /Users/xxxxxxxx/Desktop/Dave's Mock Folder/“, my functions get passed this Folder string.

If it contained the Following files:
Test1.txt
Test1      (Folder)
Test2.txt
Test3.txt
Test4.txt
Test4    (Folder)

then return should be:

myFileList: Test1.txt, Test4.txt
myFolderList: Test1,Test4

I’ve got it to almost work in test form below, but the check for the existence of the folder always report true - see comment below.

Any help greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Dave

tell application "Finder"
set mySaveASDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set myScriptFilePath to (path to me)
set mySourceFolder to folder of myScriptFilePath
set mySourceFolderPathString to mySourceFolder as string
set myPOSIXSourceFolder to my POSIX path of mySourceFolderPathString
log "myScriptFilePath: [" & myScriptFilePath & "]"
log "mySourceFolder: [" & mySourceFolder & "]"
log "mySourceFolderPathString: [" & mySourceFolderPathString & "]"
log "myPOSIXSourceFolder: [" & myPOSIXSourceFolder & "]"
set myFileAliasList to the entire contents of mySourceFolder
log "-----"
set myTP2FileList to {}
set myTP2FolderList to {}
repeat with myFile in myFileAliasList
set myTemp to properties of myFile
set myFileName to name of myFile
if (myFileName starts with "setup-") and (myFileName ends with ".tp2") then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
set myTP2FolderName to first text item of myFileName
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "-"
set myTP2FolderName to last text item of myTP2FolderName
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to mySaveASDelimiters
set myTP2FolderPath to myPOSIXSourceFolder & myTP2FolderName as string
log "myTP2FolderPath: " & myTP2FolderPath

--
— The (exists folder myTP2FolderPath) ALWAYS return true, e.g. I never get a beep/dialog
--
tell application "System Events"
if not (exists folder myTP2FolderPath) then
beep
display dialog "Could not find Mod folder for Mod: " & myTP2FolderName
return {}
end if
end tell
log "myFileName: " & myFileName
log "myTP2FolderName: " & myTP2FolderName
set end of myTP2FileList to myFileName
set end of myTP2FolderList to myTP2FolderName
end if
end repeat
log "-----"
log "myTP2FileList: " & myTP2FileList
log "myTP2FolderList: " & myTP2FolderList
return myTP2FileList
end tell
Testing the list

Steve Mills
 

Is this thing on?

--
Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac geek
Re: Help with POSIX File/Folder Paths

Dave
 

Opps, found a typeo: 

Folder actually looks like this:

Test1.tp2
Test1      (Folder)
Test2.tp2
Test3.tp2
Test4.tp2
Test4    (Folder)

and the return should be:

myFileList: Test1.tp2, Test4.tp2
myFolderList: Test1,Test4





On 26 Apr 2020, at 19:34, Dave <dave@...> wrote:

Hi,

I’m modifying a large existing script. The Script does a lot of File Munging and passes things around as POSIX file/folder paths.

I haven’t done any AppleScript in a very long time and I don’t have access to my past work.

I know I have done this before but I just can’t remember what the trick is!

Basically I want  to scan a Folder and check if:

There is a file with a “.to2” (or specified) extension and if so, check if there is also a folder of the same name and if there is, add the Full POSIX file path to one list and the Full POSIX Folder path to another.

So, if we have a base folder of " /Users/xxxxxxxx/Desktop/Dave's Mock Folder/“, my functions get passed this Folder string.

If it contained the Following files:
Test1.txt
Test1      (Folder)
Test2.txt
Test3.txt
Test4.txt
Test4    (Folder)

then return should be:

myFileList: Test1.txt, Test4.txt
myFolderList: Test1,Test4

I’ve got it to almost work in test form below, but the check for the existence of the folder always report true - see comment below.

Any help greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Dave

tell application "Finder"
set mySaveASDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set myScriptFilePath to (path to me)
set mySourceFolder to folder of myScriptFilePath
set mySourceFolderPathString to mySourceFolder as string
set myPOSIXSourceFolder to my POSIX path of mySourceFolderPathString
log "myScriptFilePath: [" & myScriptFilePath & "]"
log "mySourceFolder: [" & mySourceFolder & "]"
log "mySourceFolderPathString: [" & mySourceFolderPathString & "]"
log "myPOSIXSourceFolder: [" & myPOSIXSourceFolder & "]"
set myFileAliasList to the entire contents of mySourceFolder
log "-----"
set myTP2FileList to {}
set myTP2FolderList to {}
repeat with myFile in myFileAliasList
set myTemp to properties of myFile
set myFileName to name of myFile
if (myFileName starts with "setup-") and (myFileName ends with ".tp2") then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
set myTP2FolderName to first text item of myFileName
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "-"
set myTP2FolderName to last text item of myTP2FolderName
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to mySaveASDelimiters
set myTP2FolderPath to myPOSIXSourceFolder & myTP2FolderName as string
log "myTP2FolderPath: " & myTP2FolderPath

--
— The (exists folder myTP2FolderPath) ALWAYS return true, e.g. I never get a beep/dialog
--
tell application "System Events"
if not (exists folder myTP2FolderPath) then
beep
display dialog "Could not find Mod folder for Mod: " & myTP2FolderName
return {}
end if
end tell
log "myFileName: " & myFileName
log "myTP2FolderName: " & myTP2FolderName
set end of myTP2FileList to myFileName
set end of myTP2FolderList to myTP2FolderName
end if
end repeat
log "-----"
log "myTP2FileList: " & myTP2FileList
log "myTP2FolderList: " & myTP2FolderList
return myTP2FileList
end tell
Help with POSIX File/Folder Paths

Dave
 

Hi,

I’m modifying a large existing script. The Script does a lot of File Munging and passes things around as POSIX file/folder paths.

I haven’t done any AppleScript in a very long time and I don’t have access to my past work.

I know I have done this before but I just can’t remember what the trick is!

Basically I want  to scan a Folder and check if:

There is a file with a “.to2” (or specified) extension and if so, check if there is also a folder of the same name and if there is, add the Full POSIX file path to one list and the Full POSIX Folder path to another.

So, if we have a base folder of " /Users/xxxxxxxx/Desktop/Dave's Mock Folder/“, my functions get passed this Folder string.

If it contained the Following files:
Test1.txt
Test1      (Folder)
Test2.txt
Test3.txt
Test4.txt
Test4    (Folder)

then return should be:

myFileList: Test1.txt, Test4.txt
myFolderList: Test1,Test4

I’ve got it to almost work in test form below, but the check for the existence of the folder always report true - see comment below.

Any help greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Dave

tell application "Finder"
set mySaveASDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set myScriptFilePath to (path to me)
set mySourceFolder to folder of myScriptFilePath
set mySourceFolderPathString to mySourceFolder as string
set myPOSIXSourceFolder to my POSIX path of mySourceFolderPathString
log "myScriptFilePath: [" & myScriptFilePath & "]"
log "mySourceFolder: [" & mySourceFolder & "]"
log "mySourceFolderPathString: [" & mySourceFolderPathString & "]"
log "myPOSIXSourceFolder: [" & myPOSIXSourceFolder & "]"
set myFileAliasList to the entire contents of mySourceFolder
log "-----"
set myTP2FileList to {}
set myTP2FolderList to {}
repeat with myFile in myFileAliasList
set myTemp to properties of myFile
set myFileName to name of myFile
if (myFileName starts with "setup-") and (myFileName ends with ".tp2") then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
set myTP2FolderName to first text item of myFileName
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "-"
set myTP2FolderName to last text item of myTP2FolderName
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to mySaveASDelimiters
set myTP2FolderPath to myPOSIXSourceFolder & myTP2FolderName as string
log "myTP2FolderPath: " & myTP2FolderPath

--
— The (exists folder myTP2FolderPath) ALWAYS return true, e.g. I never get a beep/dialog
--
tell application "System Events"
if not (exists folder myTP2FolderPath) then
beep
display dialog "Could not find Mod folder for Mod: " & myTP2FolderName
return {}
end if
end tell
log "myFileName: " & myFileName
log "myTP2FolderName: " & myTP2FolderName
set end of myTP2FileList to myFileName
set end of myTP2FolderList to myTP2FolderName
end if
end repeat
log "-----"
log "myTP2FileList: " & myTP2FileList
log "myTP2FolderList: " & myTP2FolderList
return myTP2FileList
end tell
Acrobat and PDF page boxes

rocketjam@...
 

The following script returns a page box and bleed box even if the PDF it is run on does not contain said boxes.

tell application id "com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro"

try

set trimSize to get trim box of page 1 of active doc

set bleedSize to get bleed box of page 1 of active doc

end try

end tell


Is there a way to have Acrobat tell you if the page boxes are present or not in a PDF?


Thanks,

RJay
Problems accessing properties of "window" class in System Prefences

Ilya Shebalin
 

Hello,
Whenever I try to refer to properties of the class «window» of Processes Suite "System Events» raises an error despite said properties being part of the dictionary for «window» element. So, even though «visible» is there the line «return visible of window 1 of process TheProcess» (the process is active and has its windows opened) returns «error number -1728 from visible of window 1 of process TheProcess». Now getting the value of the property «properties» returns coherent results but (1) the property is not listed in the Dictionary (2) the set of values it represents doesn’t include all the properties of the class «window» as per the dictionary. What gives?
Re: Automator task working with Mail

Takaaki Naganoya
 

2019/02/06 4:09、Keith Kaiser <wa0tjt@...>のメール:

I want to select a callsign (short string) in a Mail document, right click it and have it open; https://www.qrz.com/lookup/wa0tjt
the clicked string would be the wa0tjt part.

I created a 'Run Shell Script' workflow but I can't figure out how to make use of it in Mail. Would someone please walk me through the procedure to make this work.
Welcome to AppleScript Mailing List.

You’d better to make “Service” workflow to open fixed URL (https://www.qrz.com/lookup/) and selected string (wa0tjt).
I think it is not Mail.app oriented issue.


Takaaki Naganoya

--
Takaaki Naganoya
maro@...
http://piyocast.com/as/
Automator task working with Mail

Keith Kaiser
 

I want to select a callsign (short string) in a Mail document, right click it and have it open;  https://www.qrz.com/lookup/wa0tjt
the clicked string would be the wa0tjt part.

I created a 'Run Shell Script' workflow but I can't figure out how to make use of it in Mail. Would someone please walk me through the procedure to make this work.
Re: Dynamic creation of an AppleScript via AppleScript

2551phil
 


 The goal is to have some Apple Script commands in a plain text file to be used as a template.

On top of what Chris said, you can also create and run AppleScripts as .sh files.

Just write your AppleScript with a shebang targeting osascript:

#! /usr/bin/osascript
display dialog "hello, world"


Best


Phil
Re: Dynamic creation of an AppleScript via AppleScript

Christopher Stone
 

On 09/03/2018, at 09:24, Markus Ruggiero <mailinglists@...> wrote:
I want to create an AppleScript .scpt file programmatically without using Script Editor.

Hey Markus,

Have a look at these two post on the Applescript Users List.

--
Best Regards,
Chris
use framework "Foundation"
use framework "OSAKit"

set sourceURL to current application's class "NSURL"'s fileURLWithPath:"path/to/file.applescript"
set destURL to current application's class "NSURL"'s fileURLWithPath:"path/to/file.scpt"
set theScript to current application's OSAScript's alloc()'s initWithContentsOfURL:sourceURL
set theResult to theScript's compileAndReturnError:(missing value)
if theResult as boolean then
theScript's writeToURL:destURL ofType:(current application's OSAStorageScriptType) |error|:(missing value)
end if



osacompile -o <object-file> <source-file>  (see the man page)
Dynamic creation of an AppleScript via AppleScript

Markus Ruggiero
 

Hi,

I want to create an AppleScript .scpt file programmatically without using Script Editor. The goal is to have some Apple Script commands in a plain text file to be used as a template. I want to create an AppleScript that should ask the user a couple questions and then use the answers to fill in the "template" and finally save the resulting script to disk.

Simplified example:

Template.txt contains

set theApplication to XXXXX
tell application theApplication
-- many things....
end tell

My script should ask the user for the name of the application, then load the template and replace XXXXX by what the user has given. At the end the result should become a .scpt file on disk.

Thanks for any help
---markus---
Re: AppleScript script unable to respond to a script statement correctly

Shane Stanley
 

On 25 Jun 2018, at 12:48 am, Ilya Shebalin <iljashebalin2@...> wrote:

Could I kindly ask you to elaborate a bit?
Let's say in one loop itemRef contains a reference to item 3 of RecList. If the loop before called "set RecList to every record of RecList", and item 2 of RecList was not a record, then what was item 4 is now going to be item 3.

You can change the contents of items in a list while looping, but you generally shouldn't do anything that might disturb the indexing.

--
Shane Stanley <sstanley@...>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
Re: AppleScript script unable to respond to a script statement correctly

Ilya Shebalin
 

Could I kindly ask you to elaborate a bit?
24.06.2018, в 5:19, Shane Stanley написал(а):

On 24 Jun 2018, at 12:07 pm, Ilya Shebalin <iljashebalin2@...> wrote:

Tell me please what mistake I made.
You're redefining the value, and length, of RecList within you loop. That's a recipe for chaos.

--
Shane Stanley <sstanley@...>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
Re: AppleScript script unable to respond to a script statement correctly

Shane Stanley
 

On 24 Jun 2018, at 12:07 pm, Ilya Shebalin <iljashebalin2@...> wrote:

Tell me please what mistake I made.
You're redefining the value, and length, of RecList within you loop. That's a recipe for chaos.

--
Shane Stanley <sstanley@...>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
AppleScript script unable to respond to a script statement correctly

Ilya Shebalin
 

Hello,
I wrote a script which re-arranges items in a continuous order. The items are records each  containing two properties: text which is a paragraph of the original text and a number which denotes the paragraph's position in the original text. The items are to be ordered by placing them according to the numbered parameter values so that I could easily reverse the order by simply applying reverse property of list class to get the items sorted in a continuous ascending order. The script is as follows:

set RecList to {{ParagraphText:"On 18 Jun 2018, at 3:28 pm, Ilya Shebalin <iljashebalin2@...> wrote:", ParagraphPosition:1}, {ParagraphText:"That's how the as \"class utf8\" compiles in ScriptDebugger:", ParagraphPosition:3}, {ParagraphText:"", ParagraphPosition:4}, {ParagraphText:"Type this into a Script Debugger window:", ParagraphPosition:5}, {ParagraphText:"", ParagraphPosition:6}, {ParagraphText:"current date", ParagraphPosition:7}, {ParagraphText:"Compile, then go to the View Menu and choose Show Raw (Chevron) Syntax, and compile again. What do you see now?", ParagraphPosition:9}, {ParagraphText:"", ParagraphPosition:2}, {ParagraphText:"", ParagraphPosition:8}}
set NewRecList to {}
repeat until RecList is {}
repeat with itemRef in RecList
if ParagraphPosition of contents of itemRef = (count RecList) then
"log (count RecList):"
log (count RecList)
"log ParagraphPosition of contents of itemRef = (count RecList):"
log (ParagraphPosition of contents of itemRef = (count RecList))
set end of NewRecList to contents of itemRef
set (contents of itemRef) to missing value --a problem here!
"log (contents of ItemRef):"
log (contents of itemRef)
set RecList to every record of RecList
"log RecList:"
log RecList
"log (count RecList):"
log (count RecList)
end if
end repeat
end repeat

return {List1:NewRecList, List2:RecList}

Notice the log statements. Despite the fact that all statements resolve to true and contains expected values NewRecList contains duplicates of some items leaving alone others whereas the logic does not seemingly imply that. It should assign missing value to an item and consider only records, but it fails for that particular items.  Tell me please what mistake I made.

Happy day, 
I.S.
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