Here is a solution for Tags in Applescript

Disclaimer: Try this at your own risk, if anything goes wrong it is not my fault
I recently started programming with Applescript and thought I would try something that I miss from my Windows days. The ability to right click and choose create new text file. Mac OS X does not allow that so I turned to Applescript. I got to work. There are many people who wish to do the same as me, have a script button on the Finder Menu bar and when clicked it creates a new text file in the current folder your in, or if no Finder Window is open then the desktop.
This was easy, however I wanted to do it another way. I wanted to have a save dialog box appear that lets me enter the file name I wish to create, set any Tags and the save location. I managed to do get the file to be created as what I wanted and where I wanted. What I could not do was set Tags. I searched round and nobody seemed able to know. So I decided to keep it simple.
Here is my code
set filename to choose file name with prompt "choose file" default name "untitled.txt" default location (path to desktop) as alias
open for access filename with write permission
write filename to filename
The first line sets the variable filename to copy into it all the information gathered from the choose file name with prompt command. What I then decided to do was see what information the variable filename contained. So I wrote the last line of code, write filename to filename which I thought would copy the contents of filename and write them to the newly created file.
Thus i could open the new file and see what information had bene written to it and perhaps gleam any info that might let me figure out what command to use to set the tags etc.
I then ran the script and chose a filename to create, set the save location and a tag. Then I went to that location and found the file. I was ready to open it to see what info was written to it but instead saw the tag I had set.
I had inadvertently done what i wanted to. I now realise what i had done was tell my script to copy the contents of filename to the parameters of the newly created file. So the first thing to be copied would be the file location. That was going to be the same so it does not change it, next would be the filename that also would be the same so it is not changed and last would be the tag, there would be no tag so one is added.
Then when you go to the file you just created it would have the tag(s) you set in the choose file name with prompt dialog box
I hope this is of use to people and if you do not want to do exactly what I have done then perhaps it may give you an idea of how to achieve what you wish. I don't think that my method for doing this is the correct one and is probably a glitched way of doing it but it works and only needed one line of code so I am happy with that.
Good luck everybody
try
try
try

Disclaimer: Try this at your own risk, if anything goes wrong it is not my fault
I recently started programming with Applescript and thought I would try something that I miss from my Windows days. The ability to right click and choose create new text file. Mac OS X does not allow that so I turned to Applescript. I got to work. There are many people who wish to do the same as me, have a script button on the Finder Menu bar and when clicked it creates a new text file in the current folder your in, or if no Finder Window is open then the desktop.
This was easy, however I wanted to do it another way. I wanted to have a save dialog box appear that lets me enter the file name I wish to create, set any Tags and the save location. I managed to do get the file to be created as what I wanted and where I wanted. What I could not do was set Tags. I searched round and nobody seemed able to know. So I decided to keep it simple.
Here is my code
set filename to choose file name with prompt "choose file" default name "untitled.txt" default location (path to desktop) as alias
open for access filename with write permission
write filename to filename
The first line sets the variable filename to copy into it all the information gathered from the choose file name with prompt command. What I then decided to do was see what information the variable filename contained. So I wrote the last line of code, write filename to filename which I thought would copy the contents of filename and write them to the newly created file.
Thus i could open the new file and see what information had bene written to it and perhaps gleam any info that might let me figure out what command to use to set the tags etc.
I then ran the script and chose a filename to create, set the save location and a tag. Then I went to that location and found the file. I was ready to open it to see what info was written to it but instead saw the tag I had set.
I had inadvertently done what i wanted to. I now realise what i had done was tell my script to copy the contents of filename to the parameters of the newly created file. So the first thing to be copied would be the file location. That was going to be the same so it does not change it, next would be the filename that also would be the same so it is not changed and last would be the tag, there would be no tag so one is added.
Then when you go to the file you just created it would have the tag(s) you set in the choose file name with prompt dialog box
I hope this is of use to people and if you do not want to do exactly what I have done then perhaps it may give you an idea of how to achieve what you wish. I don't think that my method for doing this is the correct one and is probably a glitched way of doing it but it works and only needed one line of code so I am happy with that.
Good luck everybody
try
try
try

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