Help needed to link up buttons on HUD Window to Applescript

Hi
I have very limited experience of XCode, though I did build a very simple application some time ago that appended text to the Comments field of the currently playing track in iTunes using Applescript. The design of this app was basically just a set of drop down menus.
I now want to redesign this as a HUD Window, and thought it best to start again. Unfortunately because it was a while ago I have forgotten the steps I took to design the original app and having done some reading and googling I am still stuck.
What I have done so far is to create a new Cocoa Application, design a HUD Window with all the necessary buttons in IB and add the Applescript from the original project to the Classes Folder in XCode. The AppleScript basically just consists of a series of arguments like this:
on tempo3_(aNotification)
tell application "iTunes"
set current track's comment to ((get current track's comment) & " " & "tempo:3")
end tell
end tempo3_
In the original document the Applescript was listed in the MainMenu.xib window in IB as an App Delegate and I could ctrl click on buttons/menu items and link them to the various applescript instances/arguments in the Applescript, but since I copied the applescript from the old project to the new it isn't showing up in the MainMenu.xib window, so I'm obviously missing out an important step, and wonder if someone could point me in the right direction.
Thanks
Nick

*AppleScript Studio* has been deprecated in Snow Leopard. You can still open and edit older projects, but the new framework is AppeScriptObjC. The regular AppleScript part of your project would be the same, but the way your script addresses the user interface (Interface Builder) is different in the new framework.
For an older project, you can enable the AppleScript Studio palette in Interface Builder (see the AppleScriptObjC Release Notes), and for a newer project there is a starting tutorial at MacScripter.net (see AppleScriptObjC in Xcode).

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I want to use drop down lists that are "connected". Depending on the choice made in the first dropbox, the user will get new options in the second dropbox.
Example:
Dropbox 1
Values
- value 1
- value 2
- value 3
Dropbox 2
If user choses value 1, they can chose the following values in dropbox 2:
- Value A
- Value B
If user choses value 2, they can chose the following values in dropbox 2:
- Value C
- Value D
If user choses value 3, they can chose the following values in dropbox 2:
- Value E
- Value F
I have been puzzeling for a while, but cannot find the solution for this.
THank you in advance
Daniel

Hi,
1. You create the first dropdown, for example with the following entries:
    123
    456
    789
2. You create a second dropdown which is empty.
3. Then you have to copy the follwoing script in the change-event of the first dropdown:
switch (xfa.event.newText)
    case "123":
        DropdownListe2.clearItems();
        DropdownListe2.addItem("Please select a value");
        DropdownListe2.addItem("456");
        DropdownListe2.addItem("789");
        DropdownListe2.selectedIndex = 0;
        break;
    case "456":
        DropdownListe2.clearItems();
        DropdownListe2.addItem("Please select a value");
        DropdownListe2.addItem("123");
        DropdownListe2.addItem("789");
        DropdownListe2.selectedIndex = 0;
        break;
    case "789":
        DropdownListe2.clearItems();
        DropdownListe2.addItem("Please select a value");
        DropdownListe2.addItem("123");
        DropdownListe2.addItem("456");
        DropdownListe2.selectedIndex = 0;
        break;
    default:
        break;
That's all.
In your case you have to change "123", "345", "678" in "value 1", "value 2", "value 3".
In the first case "value 1" you have to change in the first case "value 1": the DropdownListe2.addItem("123"); to DropdownListe2.addItem("Value A"); ...
I hope it's helpful for you,
kind regards,
Mandy

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In order for TestWindow to send messages to Test it needs a reference of Test. Therefor write in TestWindow this:private Test parentFrame;
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parentFrame = t;
}... then after create an instance of TestWindow in Test call this method like this:...
TestWindow tw = new TestWindow ();
tw.setParentFrame (this);
...Next, in Test create a method that will be called when a string is inputted:public void sendString (String s)
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