Learning AppleScript

Question

Hi everybody,
I have:
Folder with a buch of mht files that I want to convert to html.
Firefox with UnMHT addon installed which allows me to view and save mht pages as html.
AppleScript Editor.
The script for accomplishing this would basically consist of the follwong steps:
Open the folder with mht files.
Open Firefox.
Tell Firefox to open the first file on the list.
Tell Firefox to save the file as html in the same folder.
Tell Firefox to close the file.
Repeat the process 3-5 till the last file.
End
I managed to write a script that does steps 3-5. The script looks like this:
tell application "Firefox"
    activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Firefox"
        open "/Users/admin/Desktop/Test/webpage.mht"
        keystroke "s" using {command down}
        delay 1
        keystroke return
        delay 1
        keystroke "w" using {command down}
    end tell
end tell
It doesnt work perfectly. Now the next step is to repeat the same process for all the files within the folder. How to do that? What do I need to learn?
Sincerely,
Marino

Answer 1

Firefox is not scriptable and your solution is probably as close as you will get..
set myFolder to (path to desktop as text) & "Test"
activate application "Firefox"
tell application "System Events"
    set myFiles to every file of folder myFolder whose visible = true
    repeat with aFile in myFiles
        set pPath to aFile's POSIX path
        tell process "Firefox"
            open pPath
            keystroke "s" using {command down}
            delay 1
            keystroke return
            delay 1
            keystroke "w" using {command down}
            delay 1
        end tell
    end repeat
end tell