I am posting this more to inform others than ask a question, since I find this to be rather valuable. A search on Wikipedia led me to an AppleScript article that explained if you right click in Script Editor you get a list of options like automatically inserting comments, or tell blocks, or any other snippet of code you might regularly use. Furthermore, you can add and edit scripts in this menu - just go to the “Script Editor Scripts” folder of your “Scripts” Folder in your Library.
I feel extremely silly now for not trying a Right Click in the editor window earlier…
jON bEEBE
I’ll join you in that feeling. I never noticed that feature either, nor did I know that I could add my own handlers. I’ve been copying and pasting.
jonn8
April 10, 2005, 2:21am
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Yes, this is a very handy feature. Here’s an extremely useful script I wrote for selecting a routine you’ve written and easily adding it as an insertion script in the Script Editor Scripts folder for future use:
–Open this script in a new Script Editor window.
property last_target_folder : “”property script_type : “Insert Directly”
try tell application “Script Editor” to tell front document to set the_routine to selection ’s contents if the_routine = “” then return set routine_name to display dialog “Enter a name for this routine:” default answer “” buttons {“Cancel”, “OK”} default button 2 with icon 1)'s text returned set script_type to display dialog “When run, should this routine be placed on the clipboard or inserted directly into your script?” buttons {“Cancel”, “Clipboard”, “Insert Directly”} default button script_type with icon 1)'s button returned set SE_scripts_folder to path to scripts folder from local domain ) as Unicode text ) & “Script Editor Scripts:” –maybe change to user domain depending on your system try tell application “System Events” to set SE_scripts_subfolders to name of folders of SE_scripts_folder as alias )if last_target_folder = “” then set last_target_folder to SE_scripts_subfolders ’s item 1set target_folder to choose from list SE_scripts_subfolders with prompt “Where should “” & routine_name & “” be saved?” default items {last_target_folder } OK button name “Save”) as Unicode text if target_folder = “false” then return set last_target_folder to target_folder set target_folder to SE_scripts_folder & target_folder & “:”on error set target_folder to SE_scripts_folder end try set the_script to routine_name & “”my /color if script_type = “Insert Directly” then set the_script to the_script & "else set the_script to the_script & "end if set the_script to the_script & "store script (run script the_script ) in ((target_folder & routine_name & “.scpt”) as file specification )beep 2display dialog ““” & routine_name & “” has been saved in “” & target_folder & “”” & return & return & “You may need to quit Script Editor to use this script from the contextual menu.” buttons {“OK”} default button 1 with icon 1on error e display dialog "ERROR: " & e buttons {“OK”} default button 1 with icon 0end try
on /color set s to my snr (s , “", “\”)set s to my snr (s , “””, “"”)return s & “”"end escape_string
on snr (t , s , r )tell a reference to my text item delimiters )set o , contents } to contents , s }set t , contents } to t ’s text items , r }set t , contents } to t , o }end tell return t end snr
Save this as “Save Selection as Script…scpt” in your Script Editor Scripts folder and relaunch SE to access it. You may need to adjust the path to the scripts folder to your user’s script folder if that’s where you store your scripts (I keep them in the main library so I can access them from all users on my machine).
Jon
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That’s very cool! Jonn8!
Is there a way to integrate this in xCode?
Vince
Right after I found this feature I thought about writing a script that does exactly what yours does…Thanks!
jON bEEBE
this is why this bbs is so valuable to us`
thanks JJ