Applescript Studio Ad Builder Demo

Apple distributed a CD for Applescript with a demo for InDesign 2.0 called Ad Builder. Is there an updated demo for CS2 sytax?? It built Real Estate pages..

Hi--
AppleScript Studio uses Xcode for creating, editing, and compiling applications, and Interface Builder is for building the GUI part. I'd suggest taking a look at the Apple Developer Connection web site.
In particular, there's an introduction to AppleScript Studio that may or not explain it all to you. There are even some tutorials there on building apps and gheir GUIs.
charlie

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Building a stand-alone AppleScript Studio application

I’m taking a crack at building my first stand-alone application with AppleScript Studio. After many attempts to locate the needed “build” information in the various documentation resources I’m still pretty much poking around in the dark ...
My application runs fine in the Xcode IDE. No problems. The application that Xcode saves in the project’s Debug folder runs too, (well, on the computer I developed it on) even if I move it out of its folder ...
However, the app. doesn’t run on other macs. When double-clicked and it sorta fizzles without ever opening — wondering if the debug version relies on some resources within the project. I've installed it on a PowerBook and iBook, both running Mac OS 10.4
I tried Build/Release. This also produced an application (in the Build/Release folder) which when failing to launch and causes the OS to burp, “You cannot open the application “My First App” because it may be damaged or incomplete.” This app will not run on my development computer or other laptops (PowerBook and iBook.)
Build/Release also invoked three Xcode compiler error messages that seem to indicate that I need to change the NIB settings:
/usr/bin/ld: warning /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Coco a cputype (18, architecture ppc) does not match cputype (7) for specified -arch flag: i386 (file not loaded)
/usr/bin/ld: warning /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/AppleScriptKit.frame work/AppleScriptKit cputype (18, architecture ppc) does not match cputype (7) for specified -arch flag: i386 (file not loaded)
/usr/bin/ld: warning fat file: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/../../../libSystem.dylib does not contain an architecture that matches the specified -arch flag: i386 (file ignored)
Also got this warning(?):
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
__keymgr_dwarf2_registersections
_cthread_initroutine
_atexit
_errno
_exit
mach_initroutine
_ASKInitialize
_NSApplicationMain
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Also tried Clean All. Same result.
I'm sure there's a simple step ... which I will remember well, 'cause I'm learning it the hard way.
John

However, the app. doesn’t run on other macs. When
double-clicked and it sorta fizzles without ever
opening — wondering if the debug version relies on
some resources within the project. I've installed it
on a PowerBook and iBook, both running Mac OS 10.4
You're right. You can't move a debug version of the app to another computer unless you copy the entire project folder. The debug version of the app requires access to other by-products of the build process in order to run.
Build/Release also invoked three Xcode compiler error
messages that seem to indicate that I need to change
the NIB settings:
The following errors are not related to your NIB file. They indicate you're trying to link against the 10.3.9 frameworks on an intel CPU. The 10.3.9 frameworks are PPC only.
/usr/bin/ld: warning
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/System/Library/Framew
orks/Cocoa.framework/Cocoa cputype (18, architecture
ppc) does not match cputype (7) for specified -arch
flag: i386 (file not loaded)
/usr/bin/ld: warning
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/System/Library/Framew
orks/AppleScriptKit.framework/AppleScriptKit cputype
(18, architecture ppc) does not match cputype (7) for
specified -arch flag: i386 (file not loaded)
/usr/bin/ld: warning fat file:
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/../../../libSyst
em.dylib does not contain an architecture that
matches the specified -arch flag: i386 (file
ignored)
[snip]
Take a look at the suggestions I made in this thread to make sure your project is set up to build a universal binary and to ensure that you're linking against the 10.4 universal frameworks.
Steve

AppleScript Studio Quit Working

Last December (2007) I followed the tutorials in the "Introduction to AppleScript Studio Programming Guide" to create a handful of demo projects, plus one of my own invention that actually worked!
Today I sat down to resume my learning and I found that, while the target apps I had created still work, I cannot rebuild the projects. The error message is the same in every case:
Tool:0: Command /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 failed with exit code 1
Tool:0: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit
load command 19 unknown cmd field
To reproduce the error, I...
Open the project's folder
Double-click on the <projectname>.xcodeproj icon
Click the "Build and Go" button.
Any idea what may have changed since last December?
--Gil

I just encountered a problem with my project that occurs under the same circumstances: open my project file, click on the build button, and it fails with the same error:
/usr/bin/ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/WebKit load command 19 unknown cmd field
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I just ran an update to move to 10.4.11. I get the feeling that updated Webkit, and that's causing the problem. I'm on a PPC machine running XCode 2.1 but perhaps it's time to check out 2.5.
For what it's worth, I found that I was still able to compile using "xcodebuild" on the command line. You might try giving this a shot. From the Terminal, cd into the project's directory; then execute "xcodebuild -alltargets clean && xcodebuild build" -- this will clean the current executable then build it.
A couple questions for you: (1) What OS are you running? (2) What version of XCode? (3) What processor architecture (Intel or PPC)?
That's all for now.. let me know how it goes..
On a side note, I found your post through a Google search, and it's only a day and a half old... nice.
(Update -- Ah... I see you solved the problem by upgrading to XCode 2.5.)
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AppleScript Studio in Xcode 4.0.1

I know in Xcode 3.2 (or earlier) you could enable it (AppleScript Studio) with the Terminal command
defaults write com.apple.InterfaceBuilder3 IBEnableAppleScriptStudioSupport -bool YES
but now that Interface Builder is gone, How can you enable it? Or is it impossible with the new Xcode.
I guess I could use my old Xcode to work on these types of apps, but it would be nice to be able to use this...
Thanks,
kylerjt

AppleScript Studio is deprecated. I believe all your old apps will work, but you'll have to make the move to AppleScriptObjC for any new apps you write. I never used Studio, but I understand ObjC is a much better way of getting things done.

How can I use AppleScript Studio to display an image

How can I use AppleScript Studio to display an image in a dialog?

Add an image well to your window in Interface Builder.
You can also add an image file to the Resources group of your Xcode project and then set the image to be displayed inside the image well directly in Interface Builder. No AppleScript code is needed if the image is contained within your app bundle and can be set ahead of time like this.
If the image is contained in your app's bundle but you need to set or change the image at run time then you can use a line of AppleScript to load it into the image well using just it's filename:
set image of image view "yourImageView" of window "yourWindow" to load image "YourImageFile.jpg"
If you need to load an image from an arbitrary location outside your app's bundle then use a path to the image file...
set image of image view "yourImageView" of window "yourWindow" to load image "/path/to/YourImageFile.jpg"
Steve

Starting an applescript studio app

I have written an applescript. I want to incorporate it into an applescript studio app........mainly to make use of the progress bar indicator. How do I get the script to start without having to click on any buttons. Thanks.

Hook up your window (or the progress indicator) to the "awake from nib" handler in Interface Builder and insert your existing applescript code into the "on awake from nib theObject" handler that gets created in the AS Studio script.
Steve

Installing Applescript Studio

Hi,
Where can I get AppleScript Studio? I can't find it preinstalled on my Mac Mini, nor on the MacOS X double CD. Is there some place I can download it without needing to get the full XCode or Dev Tools?
Thanks!
Raph

AppleScript Studio is not a separate "tool"... it's more or less just a different type of project that you can create and build in Xcode. So you'll use Xcode for creating your AS Studio source files and building your product and you'll use Interface Builder for creating your user interface and connecting the objects in your interface to the AppleScript handlers that they trigger.
I suppose it does seem like a big download if you are under the impression that AS Studio is just an extension of plain vanilla AppleScript. But in some ways AS Studio is almost more like an extension of Cocoa. An AS Studio app can make use of most or all of the user interface items that Cocoa can use and it can control/interrogate those items using handlers and properties that AS Studio provides. In addition, through the use of AS Studio's "call method" you can make direct calls to Cocoa methods to perform actions that AS Studio doesn't provide out of the box.
Steve

Need applescript studio older version

I have been asked to program for a company. what I would like to do is go back to an older version of Applescript studio what actually uses Applescript so I can create on interface with drop down windows and that cool floating gray-ish window. I dont know Obj-C.
what version of AS would that be. thanks for the info.

AppleScript is a set of system components, so you can't just drop in an older set.
AppleScriptObjC does use AppleScript, the main difference is in the way it accesses the Cocoa frameworks - AppleScript Studio essentially uses a bunch of terminology and handler wrappers around Cocoa methods that the Studio development team have gotten around to including, while ASOC can call Cocoa methods directly (a bit cleaner than Studio's call method kludge). You don't really need to know Objective C, but it does help a little when looking at the documentation - I know just enough to get an idea what some code snippet is doing, but don't ask me much more than that.
Older AppleScript Studio projects can still be edited and compiled in Snow Leopard's Xcode, so the components are still in there. Since Apple wants everyone to start using the new framework, the older project templates have been removed, but they can also still be used. If you really need to develop a new Studio application, for example to use on older systems, you just need to do a couple of things.
1) The AppleScript Studio palette can be enabled in Interface Builder by using defaults write com.apple.InterfaceBuilder3 IBEnableAppleScriptStudioSupport -bool YES
2) You need to get a copy of an AppleScript Studio project template. If you have access to a Leopard system installation, the easiest way would be to make a copy of the desired template from the */Developer/Library/Xcode/Project Templates/Application* folder there, for example the *AppleScript Application* template (you can also download the old templates from my iDisk here). You probably shouldn't modify anything in the /Developer folder, but you can use custom project templates from your user's *~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Project Templates/Application* folder, so copy your project template there (make intermediate folders as needed).
Once the template is copied, you can select it when making a new project and use the old terminology as usual.

Display alert applescript studio

Hi everyone!
I have used before display alert with default button and alternate button and now I would like to add a third button to my alert. I see there is a possibility of "other button" only it stretches out my alert and puts the third button away from the other two. Is there any other possibilities of adding a third button side by side to the other two? Any help is appreciated!
Thanks,
Reg

display dialog can only handle three buttons, and you don't have any control over the formatting/placement:
display dialog "blah" buttons {"1", "2", "3"}
If that doesn't work for you, and since you're in AppleScript Studio, just use Interface Builder to create your own alert window with whatever buttons you like.

AppleScript Studio projects under Snow Leopard

I know Apple has depreciated AppleScript Studio, but the documents say old projects can still be used, so I assume there's a way to edit my old AS projects. I have the iPhone SDK with Xcode 3.2 and Interface Builder, but it doesn't recognize my AS project files (e.g., MyProject.pbproj). How do I get Xcode to open my old AppleScript Studio project files?

The old .pbproj projects will probably need to be converted or opened in an older version of Xcode, which can be downloaded from Apple's Developer Member Site. The newer .xcodeproj AppleScript Studio projects can still be used in Snow Leopard (it is just not recommended), so if you have an existing project you can enable the AppleScript tab in Interface Builder - see the AppleScriptObjC Release Notes.

AppleScript Studio: status bar and panel window

My problem is that the panel won't open, and so I don't see the progress bar.
All I am looking for is the panel to come down, show the progress bar turning, then for the panel to go away when iCal is done adding the event. This is the entire script, but I'm not sure I have everything right in Interface builder. The Documentation for display mentioned clicking panel ended, but then further down it looked like you didn't need it.
I'm confused.
-- +Event.applescript
-- +Event
-- Created by Michael Ewald on 6/26/06.
-- Copyright 2006 Michael Ewald. All rights reserved.
load panel "statusPanel" from nib "statusPanel"
on clicked theObject
-- Get & Format form items
set eventTitle to contents of text field "eventTitle" of window "main" as string
set eventLocation to contents of text field "eventLocation" of window "main" as string
set EventNotes to contents of text view "eventNotesText" of scroll view "eventNotesScroll" of window "main"
set allDay to state of button "allDay" of window "main"
set startDate to current date
set startDate to content of control "startDate" of window "main"
set endDate to content of control "endDate" of window "main"
-- Make Event
start progress indicator "statusBar" of window "statusPanel"
try
start progress indicator "statusBar" of window "statusPanel"
display "statusPanel" attached to window "main"
tell application "iCal"
set theCalName to "AppleScript Test"
set theCal to calendar theCalName
if allDay is equal to 1 then
make new event at end of calendar theCalName with properties {summary:eventTitle, location:eventLocation, allday event:true, description:EventNotes}
else if allDay is equal to 0 then
make new event at end of calendar theCalName with properties {summary:eventTitle, location:eventLocation, start date:startDate, end date:endDate, description:EventNotes}
end if
end tell
-- reset form
set the contents of text field "eventTitle" of window "main" to ""
set the contents of text field "eventLocation" of window "main" to ""
set contents of text view "eventNotesText" of scroll view "eventNotesScroll" of window "main" to ""
set state of button "allDay" of window "main" to 0
set currentDate to current date
set currentDatePlus to (current date) + 1 * hours
-- Update Times
set content of control "startDate" of window "main" to currentDate
set content of control "endDate" of window "main" to currentDatePlus
on error
display alert "There was a problem!"
end try
close panel "statusPanel"
end clicked
----

Thanks for the response,
right now the window is in a seperate nib file. I was
trying to follow the applescript studio example
"Display Panel"
Then you need to load it, look at the example, you see panelWIndow is declared as property:
property panelWIndow : missing value
then inside on click handler:
if panelWIndow is equal to missing value then
load nib "statusPanel" -- if your nib is statusPanel.nib
set panelWIndow to window "statusPanel" --> that's AppleScript window name
end if
then you can use:
display panel panelWIndow attached to window "main"
What is the advantage / disadvantage of having more
than one nib file?
Not a whole lot in simple app, because you have to load it to use it.
But in more complex apps, the advantage is that you don't commit run time memory, if the users don't use it.

AppleScript Studio Problems...

I have documented some AppleScript Studio problems that I have encountered, along with some screenshots.
Hopefully somebody might have a clue what is causing the problems.
http://www.mac-specialist.com/r/as_studio.html
I would be grateful for any insights,
Bill Hernandez
Plano, Texas

Steve,
This is the message I sent earlier with new findings:
After I deleted "Smart Crash Reports.bundle" in /Library/InputManagers/, I rebooted, went to AS Studio to see if there were any problems, and guess what ?
The Debugger started working. It's been broken as long as I can remember. Every time I've wanted to learn how to work with AS Studio since it came out, the Debugger has never worked, and I always ended up moving on to something else.
This is awesome...
Bill Hernandez
Plano, Texas
<hr>
On Dec 24, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Steve Hayman wrote:
Hi Bill.
Make sure you're building a debug version of the project in order for breakpoints to work. In Xcode you set this with Project > Set Active Build Configuration > Debug .
This was the very first thing I checked the other day when I started trying to learn AS Studio in earnest.
Also I don't think those messages you are seeing about Smart Crash REports.bundle actually indicate that the app has crashed; it's just reporting that it can't load this bundle for some reason, and then proceeding anyway - I don't see anything that indicates your app has crashed.
I read a long article at : http://daringfireball.net/2006/01/smartcrashreports
and came away without a real solution. It was close to 3 am so I was barely awake, but came away confused as to what the solution was. I had used Unsanity's products particularly the menu product, but they caused too many problems with Quickeys and 4th Dimension. After talking to the people that write Quickeys, I disabled all their stuff and everything started working fine with Quickeys and 4D. They are far more important for me, that the Unsanity stuff.
I agree with the Daring Fireball article, and am annoyed that Unsanity patches the OS without asking for permission. I won't buy their products any more.
That bundle is something that certain third-party applications install which attempts to email crash reports for their apps back to their authors, rather than to Apple. I don't know what app you might have installed that included this but it would probably be safe to remove the bundle. (Double clicking on it wouldn't do anything; it's not intended to be double clicked; it just sits there and waits to be loaded.)
After I wrote the original message I realized that it wasn't double clickable, but by then it was too late. I think it was probably Unsanity's APE, or FruitMenu.If you look at /Library/InputManagers/ there's an "info" file, and a "Smart Crash Reports.bundle". I just deleted both of them, if it causes a problem I'll copy them from another machine that doesn't have it. I'm not sure but I believe they patch the original one from Apple. I'm not sure if that is correct?
<hr>
On 22-Dec-06, at 8:54 PM, Bill Hernandez wrote:
Wizards,
I have documented some AppleScript Studio problems that I have encountered, along with some screenshots.
Hopefully somebody might have a clue what is causing the problems.
http://www.mac-specialist.com/r/as_studio.html
I would be grateful for any insights,
Bill Hernandez
Plano, Texas

Applescript Studio Problems, Web Browser

Hey,
I'm attempting an application using Applescript in Xcode because I just can't get my head around objective-c.
So far I have a GUI with a button and a webview both linked to this code:
on clicked (theObject)
if the name of theObject is "loadgoogle" then
tell mainwindow
open location "http://google.com"
end tell
end if
end clicked
It compiles fine but when I click the button nothing happens.
Could someone please enlighten me?
Kind Regards
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Are you really using *AppleScript Studio*, or are you just dropping the old handlers into a new AppleScriptObjC project?
If you are creating a new project, note that AppleScript Studio is deprecated in Snow Leopard. You can still edit existing AppleScript Studio projects (which explains why it compiles), but your on clicked handler does not meet the new naming protocol used in AppleScriptObjC and Interface Builder.
See the AppleScriptObjC Release Notes - it has information about enabling the AppleScript Studio palette in Interface Builder (the AppleScript Studio project templates have been removed, though). There is also a AppleScriptObjC in Xcode tutorial at MacScripter that should get you started.

Applescript Studio app crashes with link error (dyld) image not found

I've built a small Applescript studio app that works fine on the development machine but when I run it on other machines it crashes with a dyld error, specifically:
Link (dyld) error:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ZeroLink.framework/Versions/A/ZeroLink
Referenced from: /Volumes/Discover Your Mac Spotlight movie/Table of Contents Viewer.app/Contents/MacOS/Table of Contents Viewer
Reason: image not found
Does any one know why this happens and how I can fix it?
Thanks very much in advance...
iMac G5 20 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Rick,
looks like you built the application in "Development" mode - switch the build style to "Deployment" and most probably things will be fine in the other machine.
Andreas

Applescript Studio Beginner - Run a script and display a window

Hi,
I am new to applescript studio ; I found out how to make an application displaying a window with a progress bar.
How can I start running a script without displaying any window, and at some time in the script, run the "awake from nib" handler that will call the display of the progress bar ?
Thanks,
Nicolas

Nicolas Silvestre wrote:
How can I start running a script without displaying any window, and at some time in the script, run the "awake from nib" handler that will call the display of the progress bar ?
The "awake from nib" handler is called automatically when your nib file gets loaded, you don't call it yourself. I suppose you could go thru the pain of putting your window into a separate nib file and then have your script load the nib file when you're ready... but that's not the easiest way to do it and you probably don't need to do this for your situation.
All you really need to do is go into Interface Builder, select your window object and uncheck the checkbox in the "Window Attributes" pane that says "Visible At Launch". The "awake from nib" will still be called at it's normal time and your window will be loaded but it will not be displayed.
Then you can do whatever other scripting you need to do... and when you're ready to display your window you simply call:
show window "yourWindowsAppleScriptName"
You can do your initial scripting at the beginning of "awake from nib" and then call "show window" at the tail end of "awake from nib" if that works for you. But you don't have to have the "show window" call in your "awake from nib"... you can call it later on in some other handler if you need to.
Steve

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