If your AppleScript is one line long, then you can use the code directly in your steno dictionary entry in the following way: If you want to test out a command before adding a steno dictionary entry ...

macOS標準搭載の、AppleScriptを記述・実行・各種形式で書き出す「スクリプトエディタ」。これ自体、AppleScriptからの操作が行えるようになっています。このやり方について基礎から超上級の内容まで解説する電子書籍を刊行しました。 スクリプトエディタの ...

I have been using Mavericks for a little while now and I have to admit that I was a little slow to get excited about this release of OS X. Once I started to sink my teeth into some of the power-user ...

OpenInTerminal is a popular macOS utility written in Swift that enhances the Finder by allowing users to quickly open the current directory in their preferred terminal application. It achieves this by ...

Adding the AppleScript code Now that you have configured your interface, return to Xcode again, as it is time to begin adding the AppleScript code into your project. Double click on the Enable|Disable ...

If you have been reading my columns for a while (prior to my introductory series on scripting different applications), then you may know that I am somewhat of a subroutine handler fanatic. I feel that ...

The framework AppleScriptObjC allows users to write scripts with an interesting fusion of the AppleScript and Objective-C languages. Specifically, Apple describes the framework as: AppleScriptObjC ...

In a survey, Adobe asks its developers about scripting support in Creative Suite. But it sure looks as if coders are being asked to choose between AppleScript and something else. A note posted Friday ...

Prior to Office 2008, you could automate repetitive tasks and add entirely new features in Microsoft Word by using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros. Unfortunately, Word 2008 doesn’t support ...

Basically, I want to check if Entourage is running before continuing with a script. However, if the result returned is "0", AppleScript gives an error. If the result ...