Help applescript and xcode

hello community,
i am writing a program in xcode with applescript.
the language itself causes no trouble to me, but
how can i write values to the info.plist or a plist i
created?
the purpose is, that i can log settings done in the
program itself.
thanks
DERand

Are you talking about preferences, such as the User Defaults System? Most of the existing Cocoa documentation can be used for ASObjC, you just need to know how to convert the examples.

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Hopefully someone here can give me a hand.
I have a very simple script that I would like to share with some of my coworkers who aren't so comfortable with the command line. So I would like to make a GUI with a progress bar using Interface Builder. I've searched high and low but can not find anything current that helps me. I think I might just be misunderstanding how outlets work and such, as I can get the script to run and the window shows, but the bar does not progress.
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Your window and it's contents (including your progress indicator) normally do not redraw while you're within a handler. So chances are that the progress indicator is not getting redrawn until you exit the awakeFromNib handler... at which time your progress indicator has already been incremented to it's max value and so it would redraw as already full.
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line 5
line 6
line 7"
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2
3
4
5
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7
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----

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but I would like something a bit better
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set destination to (choose folder with prompt "Select the Destination folder")
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the bottom script does not open terminal and I would like to use the display dialog in the bottom script. is this possible.
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