G’day Scripters. Apart from several weeks of thorough testing, it appears my 10-years-in-the-making App is ready for Public release. I might actually be able to stop annoying you all!!! Thank you to a

G’day folks. I thought I’d finished my App, but the latest Sierra has broken my Scroll Field scrolling. The present script takes 1 minute to trim excessive paragraphs, and a whopping 10 minutes or mor

G’day folks. The other day I wrote how the latest Sierra Security Update broke auto opening Zipped folders. Turned out what it really broke was my Safari preferences. Unticking and re-ticking the ‘ope

We can use origin and position instead, so long as you have only one monitor, this should work. If you have an external display connected, you’ll have to test for the orig/pos of that display as well.

Here is what I came up with, after many hours of testing why I had inconsistent behavior. It took me a long while to find the 2 issues I mention in my comments and find workarounds. on ActivateFullScr

G’day scripters. Several days ago I posted here, and also in the Apple forums, that in High Sierra, and after the second last Sierra Security update, zipped disk image files no longer download and aut

G’day scripters I want to read a remote .txt file using cURL, and save the result to a variable, NOT a file. If necessary, I want to add to that variable, and write it back to the remote file. Just ca

Greetings to all! We have drafted the first rough draft of the AppleScript Wiki , a great feature provided by groups.io. The Wiki doesn't even have an outline yet, but I wanted to invite each and ever

I'm not finding the scripting references for MSO on MS site. Would anybody have links? Jean-Christophe

G’day all Thanks to all of you who responded. Very useful information to be stored in my old brain. I bit the bullet and rang Digital Pacific, my web hosts. Apparently, cURL can only address files emb

Is there a place that describes what System Events is, how it works, why it is necessary for some sorts of scripting, etc.? Jean-Christophe

G’day scripters. I hope this is the last missing piece in my app. With using GraphicConverter, I need to use ‘using terms from’, but the code is ‘locked’ into using the text 'GraphicConverter 10'. If

I'm finding that depending on the tell block in which it is launched, a "display dialog" will request the user to turn to that app to be reacted too. What is the best way to have "application neutral"

I'm a very occasional user of AppleScript, so I'm not all that up on how to do things. I have failed to find something by search, so here's my question. My application allows users to create custom ke

Hi everyone! I want to create a service in Omnifocus to get something done. I usually create a script (.scpt), copy it and paste into the action "Run AppleScript" of Automator, and its ok. But now I w

I'm slowly trying to move away from Finder but I have problems finding equivalents for trivial things that I'm doing, like: tell application "Finder" to set default_location to (target of front window

Can't get or set list, column or icon view properties: tell application id "com.apple.finder" -- Finder get properties of Finder preferences (* comment out next line to see all properties *) get icon

Thanks for this handy script, Shane. I started a new topic to help others find it. Best Regards, Jim Underwood aka JMichaelTX From: Shane Stanley <sstanley@...> Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at 12:3

If there is an Applescript way to open a specific file at a given time that does not involve Calendar, I'm all for it, but right now I'm trying to focus on Calendar because that's where I manage all m

It looks like System Events has problems with big XML files... When I try tell application "System Events" return XML elements of contents of XML file XMLfile end tell of a small xml file, I get all t