A way to schedule applications launch/quit?

Question

Ok,
First off let me say I'm an apple scripting noob. I've posted a similar thread in the OSX forum, and they said all the cool scripting guys hang out here. Hopefully someone here is willing to help.
I'm looking for a way schedule when an application launches; e.g. 10min after startup? Similarly, I'd like to schedule specific programs to automatically quit at a specific time, and re-open at another; e.g. quit at 9:00am, turn on at 12:00pm? To make things more complicated, some of the programs I wish to schedule create pop-ups asking "are you sure you want to quit" and/or "do you want to save before quiting"
I would like to avoid using ical for this task (since it will happen every day) so I downloaded Lingon. Everyone says how easy this program is to use, and I see that its indeed easy to schedule it to run a specific script at a specific time, however, I have no idea how to create the actual script.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
edit: If I remember correctly, there once was a program that would follow your actions and create a script based around what you did, which you could then execute via key command, etc. The user would simply hit a "record" button and then it would record your actions and create a the script. Does something like this exist?
Message was edited by: Jonathan Timpe
Message was edited by: Jonathan Timpe

Answer 1

Schedule the following scripts to run at the desired times:
tell app "application name"
run
end tell
and
tell app "application name"
quit
end tell
If you need to put a delay into the script itself, add a new line with the content:
delay 60
where the number is the time in seconds of the delay. Scripts are entered into the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder.
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