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.

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I'm a big applescripter, and just recently i learned about applescript studio in xcode. I downloaded xcode 3.2.6 and started having fun, but immediately found i was limited by obj-C (i know precious little). So i've been searching for a good bunch of applescript studio/xcode tutorials, but everything i find is for an older version of xcode! If any of you have seen anything for xcode 3.2.6, it would be greatly appreciated!

AppleScript Studio is the old framework, and is deprecated in Snow Leopard (you can still use it if you really want to, though). AppleScriptObjC is the new framework, and although you don't need to know Objective-C, it helps a bit to be able to read it, since most of the Cocoa documentation uses it (since ASOC calls Cocoa methods directly, Apple expects you to just use the existing documentation).
There is an AppleScriptObjC in Xcode tutorial at MacScripter, and Shane Stanley has an excellent e-book available at Mac OS X Automation that will get you up to speed fairly quickly - definitely worth the investment.
I also have a few example projects and references on my AppleScriptObjC web page that have been gathered from my various wanderings (there are also a couple of conversion examples from AS Studio and Obj-C).

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I'm rather new to Applescript Studio and xcode. I don't know what would be wrong with the set-up. And why I would have no problem setting the button titles from a script but not be able to retrieve them.
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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.
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- I have added CFBundleExecutable in every InfoPlist.strings file (with and without the CFBundleExecutable property in the Info.plist file)
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Though this mentions iTunes, I think it has good examples you can use...
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/keycodes.php
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http://developer.apple.com/documentation/applescript/conceptual/applescriptlangg uide/conceptual/ASLR_variables.html

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

Add an image well to your window in Interface Builder.
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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"
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I start an applescript studio application project, when editing in Xcode Option+Return does not insert the continue line character.
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Moved to .NET SDK forum.
Search here, lots of post on IIS and setting Printer Access Permissions for your application.
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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?
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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.
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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
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Once the template is copied, you can select it when making a new project and use the old terminology as usual.

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 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
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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?
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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

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Message was edited by: maximart4u

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