Binding an AppleScript to a certain event?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hi

Is it possible to, for example, have a script run whenever TextEdit opens a document having a certain word in it’s name?

Thanks
Guy

#2

Hi,
I’m sure that there’re lots of different ways of doing this but here is a simple way:

on idle
	tell application "Finder" to name of processes
	set the_result to the result
	if the_result contains "TextEdit" then
		
		tell application "TextEdit"
			set doc_name_list to name of every document
			repeat with this_docs_name in doc_name_list
				if this_docs_name contains "test doc" then
					display dialog this_docs_name giving up after 1
				end if
			end repeat
		end tell
		
	end if
	return 5
end idle

If you save this as a Stay Open application when you run it it’ll first check if TextEdit is running and then if it is it’ll check to see if there’s a document open called “test doc” and if there is it’ll display a dialog. Not exactly what you asked for but kind of a work around in case nobody has any better ideas!!
Thanks,
Nik