Help with Applescript - filenames

Hi!
I hope there is someone who can help me. I have very little experience with Applescript, and have spent a couple of days scouring these forums amongst others without any luck...
I have a folder (titled XLS) with about 1000 excel files in it. They are numbered basen on some parametric calculations (1111.xls, 1112.xls, 1113.xls, etc). I have constructed an Automator rutine which, one at a time, can open each excel file, copy some cells and then paste the data into an empty xml-file in TextWrangler. The empty xml-file is also in the XLS folder.
What I am looking for is an applescript which can rename the open xml-file with the same filename as the xls-file. So, when 1111.xls is open, the xml-file gets renamed 1111-xml; when 1112.xls is open, the xml-file gets renamed 1112-xml, etc. Each new xlm-file is to be saved into a folder XLM, whivh is also in the XLS folder.
Thanks in advance....
Rob

Se below; there are two folders on the desktop; "xls" (with xls-files in) and "xml", as well as the empty Template.xml file. Here it is!:
--3 XLS to XML
          tell application "Finder"
                    set fileList to every file of entire contents of ("YourHD:Users:You:Desktop:xls" as alias)
          end tell
          repeat with i from 1 to number of items in fileList
                    set currentFile to (item i of fileList)
                    tell application "Microsoft Excel"
                              set screen updating to false
open currentFile
activate currentFile
activate object worksheet 1
                              copy range range ("YourRange")
                    end tell
                    tell application "Finder"
                              copy file "YourHD:Users:You:Desktop:Template.xml" to folder "YourHD:Users:You:Desktop:xml"
                    end tell
                    tell application "Microsoft Excel"
                              set docName to name of window 1
                    end tell
                    tell application "Finder"
                              set docName2 to text 1 thru ((offset of "." in docName) - 1) of docName
                              set theFile to "YourHD:Users:You:Desktop:xml:Template.xml" as alias
                              set the name of theFile to docName2 & ".xml"
open file theFile
                    end tell
                    tell application "TextWrangler"
activate
paste
close text document 1 saving yes
                    end tell
                    tell application "Microsoft Excel"
activate
close active workbook saving no
                    end tell
          end repeat
          tell application "Microsoft Excel"
                    set screen updating to true
quit
          end tell
          tell application "TextWrangler"
quit
          end tell

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We may mimic it as I did during one year and a half with Numbers '08.
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<http://idisk.me.com/koenigyvan-Public?view=web>
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This use of GUI scripting is interesting because it creates automatically rows/columns when required.
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- To Do
- To Do Later
- To File
- News
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Now for the first three I want to keep the flags permanently until I'm actully done with them.
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banacheq wrote:
... It didn't even occur to me to look in "File Format" for converting a script to an application.
Apple sometimes makes things "too" easy. Its like trying to find the salt shaker when its right by your plate...
(I had done it before but had forgotten how)
Glad you got it working.
Rob

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That's what I was hoping for ...
therefore I don't see any easy way to do what you're asking.
Someone suggested to make a script that does nothing, and which has a handler for the event that the system goes to sleep, and put the eject command there.
But I have no idea how to write such a handler, and how to make the script so that it does not appear in the dock or in the "tab bar", and so that it does not consume CPU power ...
That said, I'm often in the same situation, however, I just pull the FireWire drive anyway, once it's finished going to sleep. Since no data is being read or written there is little or no chance of corruption.
I'd rather be certain
Any ideas?
Regards,
Gabriel.

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I'm trying to write my first application that will involve a GUI. I can code applescript using script editor with a bit of effort, but I'm want to have users input more than one piece of information in the pop up. So, I download xcode, create my first applescript cocoa project go to MainMenu.xib and add a bunch of labels, text fields and buttons. Looks fairly nice... Go to start it and... nothing (well the window pops up, but it doesn't do anything). Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to link the window to the applescript... So, how do I...
* Have the applescript prepopulate data in the text fields and pulldowns
* Once the user changes the data in the fields tell the applescript
* Tell the window to close and pass the control back to the applescript once either the cancel or submit button is pressed.
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* What's a property (referenced on one of the web pages I saw around applescript and cocoa) and do I need them here?
Looking at the documentation with xcode, there isn't a lot about xcode and applescipt. Looking at the web, the top links are a few years old. So, links to good relevent documentation would be very nice as well as direct answers to the questions
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