Applescript Studio: Lion

Before you tell me, I realize that Applescript Studio is not longer supported in xcode 4.0 (which *****). But I was wondering if it would be possible to download an earlier version of xcode, that still has applescript studio, and if that would work. That would be really great if that is possible.
Alternatively, if anyone has any alternatives to Applescript Studio that would also be nice. I know that ASOC (applescript objc) is an alternative, but from what I've seen, it looks really different from applescript.
Thanks in advanced, Boboonski

Xcode 3.2.6 (some people still prefer it) can be installed on Lion with a little trickery - a Google search comes up with several solutions. AppleScriptObjC is way superior to AppleScript Studio though, with the main difference being in the way that Cocoa is used. Figuring out the appropriate Cocoa classes and methods is the biggest pain in either one, but the AppleScript parts are still AppleScript.

Similar Messages

Create a tab view item in obj-c for use in applescript studio

I'm making an application with applescript studio. I want to be able to add tab view items to a tab view at the press of a button. The problem I have is applescript studio doesn't allow me to create a new tab view item. So I'm thinking I can create the tab view item using objective-c, pass that to my applescript, then add it to my tab view.
In applescript I plan to use the following call methods to first create the tab view item object, and then add it to my tab view. The objective-c code which is called from the first line in the applescript code is below that. When I run my code I'm getting an error saying newTVI is not defined... so maybe you can see my error! Be kind to me because I'm new to objective-c and I'm sure that's where my problem lies. Anyway, I'd appreciate any help.
==Applescript calls to create and add a new tab view item
set newTVI to call method "returnNewTabViewItem" of class "makeNewTabViewItem"
call method "addTabViewItem:" of objMainTV with parameter newTVI
==Objective-c code to create the tab view item
==makeNewTabViewItem.h==
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
@interface makeNewTabViewItem : NSTabViewItem
NSTabViewItem *newTVI;
-(NSTabViewItem *)returnNewTabViewItem;
@end
== makeNewTabViewItem.m==
#import "makeNewTabViewItem.h"
@implementation makeNewTabViewItem
-(NSTabViewItem *)returnNewTabViewItem
newTVI = [[[NSTabViewItem alloc] initWithIdentifier:nil] autorelease];
return newTVI;
@end

Please, any ideas?

AppleScript Studio/Xcode problem - Problem with text entries! Please help!

Hey, I've been up for hours each night looking for solutions to this but still have had no luck.
I am creating an app in Xcode/Applescript studio that will ask you to enter how many times you would like system events to repeat a certain keystroke. First of all, the code would look something like this:
on click theObject
If the name of theObject is equal to "myApplication" then
(Right here would be where the variables representing text in an input in the app's window would be, which I have absolutely no clue what to type.)
tell application "text edit"
activate
tell application "system events"
keystroke x (x representing a variable)
end tell
end tell
end clicked
and that's about as far as I can get. I want a variable representing the text in the main text entry box, but I have no clue how to access that text, or even know if it's submitted or detected when I hit a button. Hopefully you're following, as I am way to confused to fully explain it, but please try and help me out if you can.

Hi Kamprath445,
Though this mentions iTunes, I think it has good examples you can use...
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/keycodes.php
More in depth...
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/applescript/conceptual/applescriptlangg uide/conceptual/ASLR_variables.html

Where do I find Applescript studio download at

I cant seem to find a download sight for Applescript Studio does any body know of a sight where I can download it?

Can you please send a direct link to the Xtools download and also once it is downloaded how do I use it to make a menu?
No. I can't do that. You have to register on http://developer.apple.com/ to get the tools (it's a free registration). Once you're in, though (click the ADC Member Site link at the top), just click the Downloads link, then Developer Tools.
As for the 'make a menu' question, that's covered at length in the developer documentation available through the same site.

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

Option+Return does not work in applescript studio

Fresh install of osx 10.4.6 Tiger, newest release of xcode.
I start an applescript studio application project, when editing in Xcode Option+Return does not insert the continue line character.
I can open the same .applescript in the Applescript Editor and Option+Return does work.
Also, Option+Return works in my desktop installation of Xcode. No idea what's different here or how to fix it, but it's really messing with my work flow.

Moved to .NET SDK forum.
Search here, lots of post on IIS and setting Printer Access Permissions for your application.
Also search MSDN on what is required to for IIS to access local Printers.
Also search for ActiveX Controls and Browser permissions, you'll likely have problems there also since most Browsers will not or do not recommend allowing any ActiveX control.
Don

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.

Scripting AppleScript Studio Applications

Is there a way to create commands in an AppleScript Studio application that could be called by an AppleScript? Ideally, I want to be able to use the command in an AppleScript and have it execute a handler in my Studio Application.
Thanks,
Carl

Won't be a problem with AppleScriptObjC

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.

Starting mysql daemon hangs applescript studio app

hi,
i am currently writing a small application with applescript studio that starts an apache server and a mysql database.
Starting apache via a 'do shell' command is no problem at all but starting mysql with this command
do shell script "/pathto/mysqldsafe --port=2323 --somemoreoptions &"
hangs my application.
Executing the command in a shell works well.
I guess the problem is that firing the command (in the terminal) causes the terminal to return to the command prompt (username:~ username$ ) pretty immediatley. But after one or two seconds there are some more information echoed to the shell ('Starting mysqld daemon with databases from pathto_datadir').
Maybe this confuses my app and it starts waiting for things that will never end.
My current workaround is to open the terminal and to execute the command there:
tell application "Terminal"
  do script "pathto/mysqldsafe --port=3023 --somemoreoptions &"
  delay 1
  if terminalwasopen is equal to false then
    quit
  else
    close window 1
  end if
end tell
Any ideas how to get rid off this wokaround and how to manage this with a simple 'do shell script'?
Thanks in advance.
i++
PowerBook Pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

This issue is discussed in the do shell script technote.
Specifically, even though you tell the process to background (by appending the &), AppleScript still holds onto the process' stdout and stderr, waiting for the output of the command.
The solution is to suppress or redirect stdout and stderr, e.g.:
do shell script "/pathto/mysqldsafe --port=2323 --somemoreoptions > /dev/null 2>&1 &"
The '> /dev/null' suppresses stdout (which could go to a file if you prefer), and '2>&1' sends stderr to the same place as stdout.
Incidentally, I assume you have some check to ensure apache and/or mysql aren't already active, right? This would cause a problem if mysql is already running.

Drag & drop from sorted table view to outline view in AppleScript Studio

I want to make a drag and drop from a sorted table view to an outline view in applescript Studio.
Problem is that the data are copied from the data source of the table view,
wich is unsorted, rather than from the table view itself that is sorted.
So I have the wrong data droped.
The element wich is passed from the table view thru the outline view is the row number. Then the script find the data of the corresponding row of the data source of the table view(unsorted).
I want the script, using the row number, to get the content of the displayed row of the table view (sorted).
Any help welcome.

I want to make a drag and drop from a sorted table view to an outline view in applescript Studio.
Problem is that the data are copied from the data source of the table view,
wich is unsorted, rather than from the table view itself that is sorted.
So I have the wrong data droped.
The element wich is passed from the table view thru the outline view is the row number. Then the script find the data of the corresponding row of the data source of the table view(unsorted).
I want the script, using the row number, to get the content of the displayed row of the table view (sorted).
Any help welcome.

Applescript Studio: Lion

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for