Applescript - Command F2

I am using a non apple keyboard but want to make my iMac a second screen for my new macbook pro. Is there a way I could create an apple script to make the switch?

Thanks, I found this one: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=deleteselectedfiles
But it just uses the 'delete' command, like my script does.
But, I now read the following over there:
Complete three-way deletion — track from iTunes, file from Finder, track from cloud — can only be done manually in iTunes
Bummer :-(
Anyhow, that answers my question ...

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New AppleScript commands in 2.0.1

Hmm. I hadn't looked closely at the AppleScript Dictionary for 2.0.1 until last night, and was extremely happy to find several new commands!
duplicate v : Copy image versions (and masters) from album/project to album/project.
This means that we can now add Versions to Albums via script. After a bit of experimenting, you need to use the following syntax:
tell application "Aperture"
activate
duplicate image version id "xZ67XXgVTIW8wSqONQWFzg" of project id "6/Azi6r9RIu0nmzlICmIag" to album id "1v3zqhqQaWpiKwMOlnfA"
end tell

Whoops, I hit 'post' before finishing writing.
Without the Project ID for the Project containing the Version, it doesn't seem to work. Finding the ID is probably easiest via something like:
tell application "Aperture"
get id of first project whose name is "Madeira"
end tell
move v : Move image versions from album/project to album/project.
Similar to duplicate but I've not explored it much. I suspect the real differences will be when it comes to Project-to-Project stuff.
reveal v : Reveal an image version.
Very simple, give it a Version ID and Aperture will go to (and select) that image in it's containing Project:
tell application "Aperture"
activate
reveal image version id "whLYtjQSTm2itOjC1VLGYA"
end tell
This means that we can now find the 'original' location of a Version when we are looking at it in an Album:
tell application "Aperture"
activate
set selectedImages to the selection
reveal item 1 of selectedImages
delay 1
reveal item 1 of selectedImages
end tell
It seems to be a bit picky about revealing after getting the selection, which is why this script reveals twice. Also, if there's a search setting in the containing Project so that the Version isn't visible then the script will run with no error messages but not show the Version.
Ian

New AppleScript command in KN4 - woohoo!

It's only one addition, but it makes all the difference.
You can now set the body text of a slide via AppleScript. It doesn't sound like much, but it means we can now create 'complete' presentations via scripting, making my attempts at an Aperture to Keynote export far far easier - we can set the title of the slide to the image name, and stick whatever EXIF/IPTC info we want in the body text.
Example script:
set tBodyText to "Testing, testing!"
set tTitle to "The Scripting Daily"
tell application "Keynote"
tell front slideshow
set body of current slide to tBodyText
set title of current slide to tTitle
end tell
end tell
Ian
Message was edited by: Ian Wood

Hi, Ian,
Keynote (like Powerpoint) is, at root, a visually presented outline.
Choose View>Outline to reveal the "outline structure" of your slides in the left column of the page display. What you will see there (assuming your slides are not completely composed of pictures and animations), is a full outline structure of the text of your slideshow. Titles are Level 1 headings in the outline, and then each paragraph of the body text of the slides will be at whatever outline Level you made them.
The sad thing is that this outline respresentation is kept entirely internal to Keynote--despite the fact that outline structures are represented and created by many programs. So, if you wanted to make (or had a lot of) outlines in, e.g. Word or OmniOutliner or even a mind mapping program, you would be out of luck getting these outlines into Keynote to make presentations from them. And there is reason to do so--one's outlines may be repurposed in various way in one's workflow, and it is without doubt that there are many better programs in which to create and manipulate outlines than Keynote.
Similarly, if you wanted to get the outline of your presentation /out/ of Keynote. Keynote's idea of a handout is to produce thumbnails of slides--which I find entirely useless. What would be useful is being able to export the outline (e.g. in OPML format--a standard for outlines).
If your body of outlines or the place you like to work on outlines, is Word, you can work around this deficit by using Powerpoint as a go-between. To get to Keynote: open a Word outline in Powerpoint and save it, and then open that in Keynote. And for the other direction, export a Keynote presentation to Powerpoint, open in Powerpoint and save that as "Outline (RTF)" and open that in Word to get an outline Word document. You need a third-party solution to move between OPML and either of these apps.
For anyone who makes presentations with textual substance, Keynote's inability to move outline structures in and out is a glaring omission. (If you look at Steve Job's keynote presentations, they are all pictures and titles, not textual content to speak of. Maybe that is what everyone is using these things for.)
So, anyway, that is the issue I was adverting to. If Keynote gave one the least bit of access to the outline structure of the body text of a slide, one could Applescript one's way around this lack in the program, but amazingly, the only command which delivers the body text of a slide strips the outline structure off of it before you get your hands on it!
All Best,
Greg

Question about AppleScript command.

I am looking for a command in AppleScript that will Operate a Key Binding. For example, I want to, in my script, have the computer use "Command-Shift-Z" without me touching the keyboard. I have looked through the entire AppleScript PDF from Apple and found nothing that could help me. I have considered using Terminal to create a script that fires the key binding, but I know very little about how to use Terminal. I have also played around with X11, (for about an hour and knowing nothing about what it is,) and that got me nowhere. There was a "bind" command in X11, but like I said, I have no idea what X11 is.
If AppleScript can't do this for me, could someone suggest a way of scripting that command some other way, then importing\implementing it in AppleScript?
I am basically trying to automate my dictation program by using Mac's built in "Speech" to start the program, then turn off "Speech" then turn on the microphone in the other program and open a new notepad to dictate to.
I have every part of the script down but the parts that require input from the keyboard....
Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

Thank you again for the help! I have figured it all out, thank god for apple having an easy laungage to understand! I'll post my script here and in the other forums, just incase someone is looking for something like this. I have kind of taken it upon myself to set my mac up to run, nearly, or totally, from voice commands.
Thank you again!
tell application "MacSpeech Dictate.app"
activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
if UI elements enabled then
tell process "MacSpeech Dictate"
set frontmost to true
tell menu bar 1
tell menu "File"
click menu item "New Note Pad"
end tell
tell menu "Speech"
click menu item "Microphone On"
end tell
end tell
end tell
tell process "Finder"
key down {command, shift}
keystroke "z"
key up {command, shift}
end tell
tell process "MacSpeech Dictate"
set frontmost to true
end tell
end if
end tell
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Undocumented new AppleScript command: "auto import"

According to its scripting dictionary, iPhoto '08 has a new verb, defined as follows:
*auto import* <specifier>
Start importing photos from the auto-import folder
(Specifier is the object for the command)
I've searched the menus, preferences, and help files and I can find no mention of this command or of any "auto-import folder". Anybody have any idea what this is all about?
Also, I don't understand what to put in the "specifier" field. A reference to an album to receive the imported photos, maybe? What are the options?
I guess I'm the first person who ever wished for better documentation of AppleScript.

FWIW there's also an Automator workflow that can be assigned to any folder that will import any photo dropped into the folder. You can also have the folder delete the photos after the import is complete. It's easier to setup than an Applescript IMO.
OT

Applescript command line narcolepsy.

Weird problem here....any time I try to run an applescript (any script) from the command line in Terminal the entire screen goes black and ultimately the computer goes to sleep (glowing light on the Macbook Pro). The problem happens even if I just run "osascript". I have no problems launching the scripts via the finder or running them in Script Editor.
Strange.
Anyone have any thoughts on what's causing this and how I can fix it?
Thanks.

Yes, your computer is finding the right binary file. It sounds like the file is corrupted, however.
Paste this script in Terminal:
curl http://Gnarlodious.com/Upload/osascript > ~/osascript ; chmod 555 ~/osascript ; ~/osascript -e 'say "Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah falafel hoo hoo hoo" using "Cellos" '
If your Mac sings to you then your osascript file is corrupt. If so, replace your corrupt file with this command:
sudo cp ~/osascript /usr/bin/ ; chmod 555 /usr/bin/osascript ; chown root:wheel /usr/bin/osascript
If it falls asleep some other weird problem is afoot I don't know what.

Problem with AppleScript command "Duplicate"?

Hi all.
I'm relatively new to AppleScript so I hope I can get some help here.
I'm writing a script for Aperture 3.0.3 that
1. Makes 4 new versions of the currently selected image
2. Applies 4 different image adjustment presets to the new versions.
3. Presents the 4 adjusted versions on screen.
Making duplicate versions with AppleScript was easy enough, but how do I get an ID for the newly created versions? The "Duplicate" command doesn't return any information at all.
How do I talk to image versions created with the duplicate command?
Can anyone help?
Message was edited by: Monostratos

Hi,
I'm also interested in a script like that. Have you had any success?
I've found this site, where you can purchase a similar script:
http://www.apertureexpert.com/storedetails/applescript-4-up-auto-levels-curves-r gb-luminance.html
/Christian

Overriding an AppleScript command

Hello,
I have a Script Object and overriding command activate in it
script AIM
on activate
activate application id "XYZA" -- activate application "XYZ"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "XYZ"
if window "XYZ" exists then
-- To bring the window to Focus
click menu item "XYZ" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Window" of menu bar 1
end if
end tell
end activate
on test ()
display dialog "OO"
end test
end script
*tell XYZ to activate* -- It works fine with
But I am unable call like XYX's test () : XYZ's activate () or XYZ's activate or XYZ's activate {}
Can you comment on this?
regards
Mowri

I don't know about most, but certainly a lot of them are this way (see Commands overview). Typically what happens is that if nothing responds to that command then it is sent up the chain until something does respond (there is an internal error if the target doesn't understand the term - Snow Leopard is pickier about this). A targeted script object or application (via tell) will be what the command is sent to first.
Some of the commands such as get or set obviously can't be used as handler names, but a lot of the other commands (and pretty much all of the Standard Additions commands) can be, for example:
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #DAFFB6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
on choose file
display dialog "choose file"
end choose file
on count
display dialog "count"
end count
choose file
count
</pre>
You really shouldn't do this, of course, since things can get really confusing. For commands such as activate and quit, it makes sense that a script object or application may need to extend those commands, but if you are wanting to use a particular name that just happens to be a command, you should use pipes to avoid terminology conflicts, for example:
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #DAFFB6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
on |choose file|()
display dialog "choose file"
end |choose file|
|choose file|()
choose file
</pre>

Applescript: How to run a script once upon logon for multiple users

I'm deploying a NetRestore image to about 150 Macs which will be using Active Directory and I've designed a custom default user for each new user. However, our system requires a specialized certificate that has to be installed on the local login.keychain for each user otherwise network connectivity is impacted.
I've tried to use the security command through Terminal to install the certificate, but no matter what combination of commands, I cannot seem to get that to work properly even with an already-created user. While it will often say it's installed, the cert will not actually show up in the login keychain in Keychain Access. And the network connectivity is still impacted.
So instead, I created a brief AppleScript that just gives the user brief instructions to click "Add" on the prompt for which Keychain to add the cert and then "Always Trust" for the "This cert is not verified" prompt. Then it launches Keychain Access. Originally, I was going to have it actually click the buttons for the user, but I realized trying to get the whole Accessibility apps and assitive devices to work on every new user would be a nightmare.
I created the script on another 10.9 Mac using Automator to make it an actual application. I've used the instructions in OS X: Using AppleScript with Accessibility and Security features in Mavericks to sign it and I'm using root to move it from its network location into the Applications folder. I've adjusted the permissions to allow all Admin users to r/w (along with everyone else). To the root user, it shows as a usable application, but every other user on the Mac sees it as damaged/incomplete.
What I want to do is add it to the default Login Items, so I can run the final AppleScript command to simply remove the login items listing. That way I don't need to worry about it running again, but it's still available for the next user to sign onto the deployed Mac.
I know it's a little convoluted, but this is the final piece to the NetRestore deployment I've been working on for months. Any suggestions on how to make this work (or even a completely different solution) would be greatly appreciated.
Here was the original shell script in case you're curious.
#!/bin/bash
## Prompt for current user admin for use in Certificate Install
while :; do # Loop until valid input is entered or Cancel is pressed.
    localpass=$(osascript -e 'Tell application "System Events" to display dialog "Enter your password for Lync Setup:" default answer "" with hidden answer' -e 'text returned of result' 2>/dev/null)
    if (( $? )); then exit 1; fi # Abort, if user pressed Cancel.
    localpass=$(echo -n "$localpass" | sed 's/^ *//' | sed 's/ *$//') # Trim leading and trailing whitespace.
    if [[ -z "$localpass" ]]; then
        # The user left the password field blank.
        osascript -e 'Tell application "System Events" to display alert "You must enter the local user password; please try again." as warning' >/dev/null
        # Continue loop to prompt again.
    else
        # Valid input: exit loop and continue.
        break
    fi
done
echo $localpass | sudo security import /'StartupFiles'/bn-virtual.crt ~/Library/Keychain/login.keychain
osascript -e 'tell Application "System Events" to delete every login item whose name is "LyncCert"
And this is the AppleScript itself. (I used the \ to make it easier to read. The first line is actually one complete command)
display dialog "Click OK to start installing Mac Network Certificate." & return & return & \
"In the following prompts, click the 'Add' then 'Always Trust'." & return & return & \
After you have clicked 'Always Trust', quit Keychain Access." default button 1 with title \
"Mac Network Certificate Install"
activate application "Keychain Access"
tell application "Finder" to open POSIX file "/StartupFiles/bn-virtualcar.crt"
tell application "System Events" to delete login item "Lync-AppleScript"
end
Thank you for your help!

I have run into this same issue. Are you trying to run the script one time as a new user logs in or everytime a user logs in?

AppleScript Remote Event trying to Quit iCal from another computer

I'm trying to write an AppleScript that will allow me to quit iCal on a particular user's account on my iMac from my MacBook, irrespective of if that user is the active user on the iMac.
I did some research and determined that if I enabled Remote Apple Events on the iMac and used the syntax of
on machine "eppc://[username:password]@[machine name]?uid[userID]"
...I should be able to issue the AppleScript command to quit the application.
Here's the weird bit:
If I use this syntax to :
tell application "Address Book" of machine "eppc://[user:password}@i[machinename]/?uid=[uid#]" to quit
... then that works, for Address Book. However, if I copy and paste the same line, and change Address Book to iCal, it gives me "Unable to Authenticate User" as the error and it won't compile.
Strange strange strange...
[By the way, I didn't find an AppleScript forum... is there one? is there a better place to ask this question?]

Did you ever get an answer to this question? I have the same problem on one of several Macs in my office.
This causes a User Authentication error even though the IP address, the user name, and password are correct:
set remoteMac to "eppc://username:password@ipaddress"
using terms from application "Finder"
tell application "Finder" of machine remoteMac
activate
end tell
end using terms from
However, this works fine using the same IP address, user name, and password.
set remoteMac to "eppc://username:password@ipaddress"
using terms from application "Transmit"
tell application "Transmit" of machine remoteMac
activate
end tell
end using terms from

Using AppleScript to launch an application on a different machine

Hi there,
I'm trying to use AppleScript to enable a couple of my Macs to talk to each other.
On one machine, I want to use this script:
tell application "Finder" of machine "eppc://user:[email protected]"
launch application "Rivet" of machine "eppc://user:[email protected]"
end tell
to have the other machine launch Rivet, a video server that I can access from the PS3/iPhone/iPad
everything seems to work without issue (i.e. no errors), except it doesn't do anything.
I see a line written to the console on "helium":
9/23/10 18:48:30 com.apple.AEServer[3535] launchproxy[3535]: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/AE.framework/Versi ons/A/Support/AEServer: Connection from: xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx%en0 on port: 60571
every time I run the script on the other machine, but, like I said, nothing else happens.

After much searching and trial and error I finally discoverd Hiroto's suggestion from way back in 2001. It is the only solution I have found that actually works to launch/activate any application on a remote Mac using an applescript on a local Mac.
I have one Mac Mini running household control applications Indigo and iRed. I wanted to use embedded AppleScripts in those applications to launch and control PandoraBoy on another MacMini that I use as a media center. I discovered that you cannot activate an application on a remote Mac unless it's already running. (Only God and Apple know why!) And, of course, if you want to launch and application--it's usually NOT running!
But the following works:
set remoteMachine to "eppc://RemoteMachineName:[email protected]"
tell application "Finder" of machine remoteMachine
open ("/Applications/PandoraBoy.app" as POSIX file as alias)
end tell
THANK YOU HIROTO!!!
Once the remote app is actually launched/activated you can then send AppleScript commands to it as follows:
set remoteMachine to "eppc://RemoteMachineName:[email protected]"
using terms from application "PandoraBoy"
tell application "pandoraboy" of machine remoteMachine
playpause
end tell
end using terms from
I have also learned that the application to be controlled on the remote machine must also be present on the local machine and "using terms from" must also be used in the control script for this to work.

Pages '09: Can't use AppleScript for selected text inside tables?

When I run get selection on selected text in a Pages document, I get something like this:
<pre>text from character 1 to character 4 of body text of document id 9943974 of application "Pages"</pre>
When I run get selection on selected text inside a table cell in a table in a Pages document, I get something like this:
<pre>text from character 1 to character 4 of some table of document id 3539679 of application "Pages"</pre>
When I run get selection on selected text inside a table cell in ANOTHER table in the same Pages document, I get the exact same thing. It still says "some" table. So there is no way to distinguish between tables if there are more than one table in the same Pages document.
Am I correct in understanding that this means that most AppleScript commands for manipulating text are unusable inside table cells?
For example, it seems impossible to get the properties of the selection when the selection is selected text inside "some" table. So it's impossible do anything about text styles, etc.
Is AppleScript support in Pages ’09 really that limited, or am I missing something?

The first script below should return the character style of any selection made in Pages ’09, whereas the second script should apply the "XXX" character style to any selection:
--BEGINNING OF SCRIPT 1
tell application "Pages"
activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Pages"
-- Show the format bar:
if not (pop up button 1 of window 1 exists) then
click menu item "Show Format Bar" of menu 1 of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1
end if
-- Show the styles drawer and character styles:
if menu item "Show Styles Drawer" of menu 1 of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1 exists then
keystroke "t" using {shift down, command down}
end if
tell front window
tell checkbox 1 of group 1 of drawer 1 -- “Show or hide character styles.” checkbox
repeat until it exists
delay 0.1 -- wait until the styles drawer is open
end repeat
if description is "show character style" then click
end tell
-- Get the row index (although it is not a property) of the character style:
tell menu button 2 -- “Choose a character style.” menu button
click
set k to 0
repeat
set k to k + 1
if value of attribute "AXMenuItemMarkChar" of menu item k of menu 1 exists then exit repeat
end repeat
keystroke return -- hide the menu
end tell
-- Get the character style name:
if k > 1 then set k to k + 1
value of static text 1 of row k of outline 1 of scroll area 2 of splitter group 1 of group 1 of drawer 1
end tell
end tell
end tell
--END OF SCRIPT 1
--BEGINNING OF SCRIPT 2
set myStyle to "XXX" -- the name of the character style you want to apply
tell application "Pages"
activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Pages"
-- Show the format bar:
if not (pop up button 1 of window 1 exists) then
click menu item "Show Format Bar" of menu 1 of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1
end if
-- Show the styles drawer and character styles:
if menu item "Show Styles Drawer" of menu 1 of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1 exists then
keystroke "t" using {shift down, command down}
end if
tell front window
tell checkbox 1 of group 1 of drawer 1 -- “Show or hide character styles.” checkbox
repeat until it exists
delay 0.1 -- wait until the styles drawer is open
end repeat
if description is "show character style" then click
end tell
set characterStyles to value of static text 1 of rows of outline 1 of scroll area 2 of splitter group 1 of group 1 of drawer 1
set k to 0
repeat with thisStyle in the characterStyles
set k to k + 1
if thisStyle as text is myStyle then exit repeat
end repeat
-- Apply the character style:
if k > 1 then set k to k - 1
click menu button 2 -- “Choose a character style.” menu button
click menu item k of menu 1 of menu button 2
end tell
end tell
end tell
--END OF SCRIPT 2
I suppose that +paragraph styles+ should work the same.
I'm beginning to know Pages ’09 a little better now.
Message was edited by: Pierre L. (show format bar)

Why can't I use echo "hey" in applescript?

I'm almost completely new and wonder why applescript is giving me an error when I type in echo "hey". Yes, I compiled it.

If that was the complete command you used, "echo" is not an AppleScript statement - it is from one of the command line utilities such as bash. In order to use it that way, see Apple's tech note on do shell script, or use a regular AppleScript command such as display dialog.

AppleScript "choose file" issue

This is not a question but instead a cross-reference to one I posted in the AppleScript forum about using the AppleScript command "choose file of type{}" & the URI's for iWork '08 application files. If you are an Applescript user, please take a look at it:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1673486
Thank you.

Responded in the original thread.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 21 août 2008 12:42:19)

Unix command to click button on dialog box and close windows?

I administer an elementary school computer lab of 35 eMacs all with OS 10.4.7 and with ARD 3.0. Our network server configuration requires a mounted server on each desktop in order to administer certain software packages we use. Every morning at start-up I have to walk around and manually click "Connect" on the dialog boxes. Then, with this configuration, each time a server is mounted, it opens up a Finder Window on the host machine so I've got to walk around and close windows on all the machines. I'm sure there must be an AppleScript or Unix command that I can set up to do these two tasks but I've not found it (or learned how to write it) in a few days of searching. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dan

OK guys,
I just succeeded in saving the AppleScript command as an application. I put it in the Login Items just after the servers. It worked beautifully! No more open windows exposing sensitive files to the risks of elementary students (how come the mounted volumes always appear on the desktop even when the "hide" button is checked?). It would be great if the mounted volumes were not showing at least in a setting like a school computer lab.
Now, I'm still dealing with the mounting process requiring me to manually click on "Connect" every time. The Student account doesn't even have a password just to make such things easier. Still the process displays this:
(Oh well, I guess I can't insert a ScreenShot.)
Here's what it says: Connect to the file server "server name."
Connect as: Registered User
Name: "account name"
√Remember password in keychain
(and then two buttons) Cancel or Connect
That's where I'm at right now. My district Tech. Support folks say that there's no way to avoid the dialog box but John seems to do it OK. They also pointed me to an online source (www.bombich.com) that I haven't yet checked out.
Thanks again,
Dan

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