A quick apple script

i need to make an apple script that can -
take a snapshot of the screen right before screen saver begins. place it into a specific place and replace the last one that was there.
anyone know how to do this?

You might have better luck getting help via the Applescript forum...
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=724&start=0

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Hi, I'm trying to rename a couple thousand files from their current format: "01074_Something Of A Dreamer_Mary-Chapin Carpenter.lrc"
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                                                                                                                       "01076_Everybody's Reaching Out_Crystal Gayle.lrc"
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Unfortunately I know nothing about Apple Script other than it seems like the thing I would need to automate this process based on my limited google searches. If someone could help me out with some advice on how to go about making this script or obviously if you simply have and/or can quickly write a script to do this it would be greatly appreciated!

Here:
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repeat with this_file in (get files of window 1)
set the_name to name of this_file
set temp_name to items ((offset of "_" in the_name) + 1) thru -1 of the_name as string
set temp_name to (items 1 thru ((offset of "_" in temp_name) - 1) of temp_name as string) & items -4 thru -1 of the_name as string
set name of this_file to temp_name
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Apple Script/Program start through link on HTML page

Dear Apple Gurus
Probably I'm asking something silly, but I don't know any other way to solve my problem.
I have to do some training videos about the finder and system tools. To have it easy, I would like to ad some buttons to the project where you can start an apple script which does execute some commands just explained in the video. Untill know I'm intend to do the hole thing inside QT but maybe a HTML page does the job too.
My problem is now, how can I start a AppleScript out of a Movie or HTML page.
Is this possible at all or are there any other solutions to to the job?
Best regards
Thomas Thaler

Hi Thomas,
Yes, you play movies in a smil presentation.
You can define as many regions as you want. You difine regions in the layout:
<layout>
<root-layout background-color="blue" width="320" height="290"/>
<region id="videoregion" top="0" left="0" width="320" height="240" fit="meet"/>
<region id="textregion" top="240" left="0" width="320" height="30"/>
<region id="linkregion" top="270" left="0" width="320" height="20"/>
</layout>
I got part of this from the internet, but here's a quick explanation. The root-layout part defines the whole area. Within this area you have regions. The first region defines the video region and you can give it any id. The origin of the screen is upper-left. fit="meet" means the the movie will be proportional to fit the whole movie. You can change it to other parameters (read the link from the last post). So here, three regions are defined. The first is for the movie (I used a slideshow from iPhoto), the second is for captions in the middle, and the third region is for the link region at the bottom of the screen. You can use any region as a link. Within these regions you place your movies, text, etc. (see the link for more types).
You next place your types in the body:
<body>
<par>

<video src="slideshow.mov" region="videoregion" id="mov"/>

<textstream src="caption.txt" region="textregion" system-language="en" system-captions="on" title="english captions" alt="english captions"/>
(a href="file://localhost/Users/kel/Desktop/linkapp" show="new")
<text src="text.txt" region="linkregion" end="id(mov)(end)"/>
(/a)
</par>
</body>
video src says what type of object, slideshow.mov is the name of my movie. If you place the movie in the same folder as the smil file, you can use just its name like I did. Then you enter what region you want the movie in. The id="mov" part is to give this video a reference for later use. I used it to keep the text in the link area running until the movie ended. You don't need captions if you don't want, but if you do here's an example of my captions.txt file:
{QTtext} {font: Arial} {justify: center} {size: 12} {backcolor:0, 0, 0} {timescale: 30} {width: 320} {height: 60}
[00:00:00.00]
Kelvin: Here is my movie.
[00:00:04.15]
{justify:left} {italic} Here is more text. {plain}
[00:00:07.04]
After 4 15/30 seconds the text changes.
So altogether, I had five files in the same folder: the smil file (slidshow.smil - plain text), the movie (slideshow.mov), the caption text (caption.txt - plain text), and the text file for the link region's text (text.txt - plain text). The script application was on my desktop:
"file://localhost/Users/kel/Desktop/linkapp"
It's easy to get a local file url through applescript:
set f to choose file -- the script app
tell application "Finder"
set the_url to url of f
end tell
and the the local file url is returned in the result.
The movie needs work. I was playing around with the colors. blue is not a good background color.
One thing I forgot to say is that you need to read more about the timing (duration). There are a lot of examples and tutorials on the Internet also. It's not that hard though. One thing you might have trouble with is getting repeats to work. I don't think they do.
gl,

Apple Script to Check for System as well as Applications Updates?

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I was wondering if someone has created an Apple Script to check for Finder as well as Applications updates automatically.
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Nawaf
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There wouldn't be any updates to the Finder separately. Any system updates are announced by Apple when they're available, and this is what the Software Update feature is for.
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i have a few problems with the automator utility:
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script it not running.
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Since you're using Mail, you might be able to have Mail do it.
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How would I convert this over into apple script?
; XPL Staff Client
; file: scripts/support.xpl
; last modified: 01/09/2009 @ 19:10 EST
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msg XPL|HelpServ next
alias se_next {
msg XPL|HelpServ next
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msg #XPL-Support Hello $+(,%spreq.nick,) $+ , welcome to #XPL-Support. I am your assigned helper ( $+ $me $+ ) for the request (ID#: %spreq.id $+ ). I have contacted you via private message, please respond to me there. (/query $me $+ )
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Sending email using apple script...

I have created a watch folder using apple script that when a file is dropped on it, it automatically opens, formats, and sends out a custom email.
What I don't understand is, how can I include multiple variables in the "content" section (also known as the body section of the email)? I want to put custom type in the content section that says "There is a file awaiting your review." I also would like to choose an email signature from my mail program to use. Third, I would like to include the name of the file that is being sent....
I found that by doing {content:iteminfo} I could get the file name...If I do {content:"There is a file awaiting your review."} I could get the custom type I wanted....
BUT, I can't figure out how to get BOTH of them together in ADDITION to adding a custom email signature...
I know there are some really smart people out there...Any tips?

I can't figure out how to get BOTH of them together
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There are a couple of reasons behind this, mostly because you're using the wrong command.
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