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In Automator or Applescript, is there a way to get the number items in a folder and save result to the Clipboard or Automator Variable so I can use it in the next Action?
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I've run into an odd problem where Automtor.app on Snow Leopard crashes on launch. At some point in the past, I put a copy of iPhoto.app into my public directory to copy over to another machine. Now, Automator.app won't run unless my public directory has a copy of iPhoto.app in it. If I remove it…
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I've run into an odd problem where Automtor.app on Snow Leopard crashes on launch. At some point in the past, I put a copy of iPhoto.app into my public directory to copy over to another machine. Now, Automator.app won't run unless my public directory has a copy of iPhoto.app in it. If I remove it…
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In Leopard, on Finder - desktop, right click pop up menu has an option for automator scripts.
In Snow Leopard - they have removed this option.
More over, I would like to learn some automator scripts.
What are the great resources for learning about automator & it's script ?
Suppose, I want…
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Automator allows to save a workflow as an application bundle. It uses an Automator specific icon for doing this.
I want to change this icon (using different icons for different workflows).
I can do this by going into the application bundle and change the icon with Icon Composer. The disadvantage…
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I'm new to Automator.
I need to launch a specific application and to click on one of its buttons.
I've used the "Watch Me Do" feature to register the button click but, in the Automator events log, this action is being reported as "Bring the window XXX to the front."
I'm then wondering if a better…
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Is there a way to use defined AppleScript methods in other AppleScripts which reference the original AppleScript with something similar to import (f.e. in PHP)?
I wrote a methode to set Skype status and mood-text:
on setSkypeStatus(status, mood_text)
tell application "System Events"
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Is it possible to open an application with AppleScript in an exact space?
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I am trying to open a file in a not so scriptable area of an application.
I got halfway there by using UI scripting to select the proper menu item, but this opens a standard file dialog.
How can I set the destination of the file dialog with Applescript?
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I'm trying to enable or disable all the control in a window as the programme changes from interactive to non-interactive mode. How can I ask a window to give me all its contents?
every control of window "mainWindow"
doesn't work, nor does
contents of window "mainWindow"
Actually, I haven't been…
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i am new to the world of cocoa programming, i want to add applescript support to my app.
Also the example at apple's website seems out of date
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