前編はこちら。 前回でワークフロー全体は完成しました。 この後編では、プログラミングに多少なりとも興味のある方へ向けた、その一般的な概念なども織り交ぜた AppleScript コードの説明をしてみようと思います。 プログラムに餌を与える コンピュータに何をしてほしいかと言ったら、今回 ...

AppleScript単体では「常に時計を監視し続ける」動きが重くなるため、「現在の時刻から次の00分までの差分を計算して待機する」という効率的な書き方にしています。 （これが自分ではできない） ...

AppleScript is Apple's powerful automation language for macOS. Here's how to use it to speed up your workflow when using your Mac. AppleScript was born in the early 1990's at Apple in an attempt to ...

When writing AppleScript code, many of the things that you will automate will involve working with and manipulating text in some manner. For example, you might need to write a script that will ...

In recent months, we have been discussing ways to automate the Office applications using AppleScript. We have discussed Word and Excel scripting, and this month, we are going to focus on scripting ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is excerpted from The Mac OS X Tiger Book from Wiley Publishing (0-7645-7956-6); the book can be ordered from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Copyright ...

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 ...

This is an AppleSript language binding (glue code) for using Pashua with AppleScript. Pashua is a macOS application for using native GUI dialog windows in various ...

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 ...

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 ...