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Hi everyone,
I wondered whether someone could help this ammeter create his script
I want to make a script that plays the iChat videoconference "Ring" sound continuously in the background untill I click "OK". I will then use this in iCal, by selecting my script under the "Alarm" section for the event.
Unfortunately I am pretty much an absolute beginner with AppleScript. So far I have come up with this that doesn't work and if it did, wouldn't even do what I want:
global Play_Count
set Play_Count to 0
tell application "Finder"
open document file "Ringer.aiff" of folder "Scripts" of folder "Documents" of folder "Samtherocker" of folder "Users" of startup disk
end tell
tell application "QuickTime Player"
repeat while Play_Count is less than 5
rewind
play front movie
set Play_Count to Play_Count + 1
end repeat
end tell
I know that this script does not do what I want to achieve but I thought I'd add it to show what I'd done so far.
If anyone can help me or point me in the right direction that would be great. Also, can anyone reccommend a good book/website for learning AppleScript?
Sam

John that was great!
I think that you were right in saying that the script was more complicated than I really needed, so I took the bits from the script that I was lacking and added a few more and came up with this:
tell application "Finder"
open document file "Ringer.aiff" of folder "Scripts" of folder "Documents" of folder "Samtherocker" of folder "Users" of startup disk
end tell
tell application "QuickTime Player"
rewind
set looping of front movie to true
play front movie
set visible of every window to false
end tell
display dialog "Stop Alarm?" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
tell application "QuickTime Player"
quit
end tell
launch application "iCal"
It does exactly what I wanted it to do in the first place so thanks a lot John.
Sam
P.S. Can you recommend any good books/sites?

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