June 27th, 2007 |
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How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language:
fullduplex.org » How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language
The proliferation of modern programming languages (all of which seem to have stolen countless features from one another) sometimes makes it difficult to remember what language you’re currently using. This guide is offered as a public service to help programmers who [...]
Oh man so true so true
(Via Mind-NOX.)
May 3rd, 2006 |
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AppleScript, Tools I Use
System-Wide iPhoto Browser:
Great tip from MacOSXHints.com — a simple Automator action lets you access a browser for your iPhoto photos, without having to launch iPhoto itself. I’ve added this to my Scripts menu. (Via Michael Tsai.)
This is a slick trick and works for iTunes too
(Via Daring Fireball Linked List.)
December 7th, 2005 |
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AppleScript, Photography
tow.com » blog » Aperture Scripting:
[He] is writing an AppleScript that transfers annotations from my iView catalogs into Aperture image versions. My file structure for my annotated RAW images has been well-documented, and it will make writing this script relatively straightforward — if anything in AppleScript can be straightforward! A tricky part was mapping iView’s annotation field names
Will be interesting to see what dirvers people use with aperture…
(Via .)
October 15th, 2004 |
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AppleScript Resources:
Download these AppleScript Reference Guides and sample scripts for Microsoft Office 2004. Check back frequently to access new AppleScript guides and sample scripts. Microsoft Office 2004 AppleScript Reference guides provide documentation of the AppleScript dictionaries for Office 2004 programs. Learn how to use the classes and commands to create your own scripts.
(Via Studio Log.)
October 12th, 2004 |
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NetNewsWire 2 to Tasks Script:
I’ve made an updated version of my NetNewsWire to Tasks scripts available. This version works with the new tabbed browsing feature in NetNewsWire 2. If a browser tab is the current tab, it uses that URL and page title, otherwise it uses the selected news item as it did previously.
NetNewsWire to Tasks AppleScripts (nnw2_to_tasks.zip 10kB)
Kewl Alex, adding to my menu, I have some ideas to speed these up a little bit
(Via alexking.org: Blog.)
June 29th, 2004 |
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div class=’codeblock’>
–
property kUrlToTasks : "http://tasks.samdevore.com/"
property kDefaultTasksID : 27
on encode_text(this_text)
set the acceptable_characters to "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_"
set the encoded_text to ""
set the character_list to {}
repeat with this_char in this_text
set this_char to the contents of this_char
if this_char is in the acceptable_characters then
set the end of the character_list to this_char
else
set the end of the character_list to encode_char(this_char)
end if
end repeat
return (the character_list) as string
end encode_text
–
on encode_char(this_char)
set the ASCII_num to (the ASCII number this_char)
set the hex_list to {"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F"}
set x to item ((ASCII_num div 16) + 1) of the hex_list
set y to item ((ASCII_num mod 16) + 1) of the hex_list
return ("%" & x & y) as string
end encode_char
on addToTask(theTitle, theUrl, theID)
set theLocation to kUrlToTasks & "index.php?screen=edit&id=" & theID & "&task_notes_append="
set theLocation to theLocation & encode_text("<li><a href=\"" & theUrl & "\" rel=\"external\">" & theTitle & "</a></li>")
tell application "System Events"
open location theLocation
end tell
end addToTask
tell application "NetNewsWire"
set theTitle to title of selectedHeadline
set theUrl to URL of selectedHeadline
tell application "Safari"
set this_URL to the URL of document 1
end tell
–
set idNumber to kDefaultTasksID
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to "?"
set the item_list to every text item of this_URL
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to ""
if item 1 of item_list contains kUrlToTasks then
set params to item 2 of item_list
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to "&"
set the param_list to every text item of this_URL
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to ""
repeat with param in param_list
if param contains "id" then
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to "="
set idNumber to text item 2 of param
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to ""
end if
end repeat
–
–
end if
my addToTask(theTitle, theUrl, idNumber)
end tell
June 21st, 2004 |
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This is a sample script to create an entry in Tasks.
This script will take the current message that you are reading in mail.app and open a window in Safari with the tasks new new task screen, the subject of the mail message is the title of the task and the body of the email is the description of the task.
<div class="codeblock"><!-- AppleScript Formatting Start -->
–
property kUrlToTasks : "http://tasks.samdevore.com/"
on encodeText(thisText)
set the acceptableCharacters to "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"
set the encodedText to ""
set the characterList to {}
repeat with thisChar in thisText
set thisChar to the contents of thisChar
if thisChar is in the acceptableCharacters then
set the end of the characterList to thisChar
else
set the end of the characterList to encodeChar(thisChar)
end if
end repeat
return (the characterList) as string
end encodeText
–
on encodeChar(thisChar)
set the ASCIINum to (the ASCII number thisChar)
set the hexList to {"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F"}
set x to item ((ASCIINum div 16) + 1) of the hexList
set y to item ((ASCIINum mod 16) + 1) of the hexList
return ("%" & x & y) as string
end encodeChar
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theSelectedMessages
tell application "Mail"
if (count of theSelectedMessages) is equal to 0 then
display dialog "Please select a message in Mail first, then run this script again."
else if (count of theSelectedMessages) is equal to 1 then
set eachMessage to item 1 of theSelectedMessages
set theSource to content of eachMessage
set theSubject to subject of eachMessage
my createMessageWithSource(theSource, theSubject)
else
display dialog "Please select only one message in Mail first, then run this script again."
end if
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
on createMessageWithSource(theSource, theSubject)
set theUrl to kUrlToTasks & "index.php?screen=edit&taskNotes="
set theUrl to theUrl & encodeText(theSource)
set theUrl to theUrl & "&taskTitle=" & encodeText(theSubject)
tell application "System Events"
open location theUrl
end tell
end createMessageWithSource
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This combines really well with
AppleScript keyboard shortcuts in mail.app
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