Hey all
I am making a command prompt type thing and i am having some problems:
set _com to text returned of (display dialog ">>:" default answer "quit Dock" buttons {">"} default button 1)
if _com begins with "quit" then
(* Execute my next questions code here *)
else
display alert "Command Not Found!" message "\"" & _com & "\" Is not a valid command"
end if
so far so good, but what i need to be able to do now is get applescript to read the variable again and skip out the word quit then set the answer to another variable
Like this: (not real code!)
set _com to text returned of (display dialog ">>:" default answer "quit Dock" buttons {">"} default button 1)
if _com begins with "quit" then
remove text "quit" from variable _com
tell application _com to quit
else
display alert "Command Not Found!" message "\"" & _com & "\" Is not a valid command"
end if
set _com to text returned of (display dialog ">>:" default answer "quit Dock" buttons {">"} default button 1)
if _com begins with "quit" then
set _com to text 6 thru -1 of _com
tell application "System Events" to if exists process _com then -- this checks if the process is running
tell application _com to quit
end if
else
display alert "Command Not Found!" message "\"" & _com & "\" Is not a valid command"
end if
Itās not a good idea to have the user type in applications name. Itās better to have the user choose the app. Hereās an example:
tell application "System Events"
set app_list to name of every process whose visible is true
end tell
set user_apps to choose from list app_list with multiple selections allowed
if user_apps is false then return
repeat with this_app in user_apps
try
tell application this_app to quit
end try
end repeat
Note that some applications donāt have the same name as their process, but itās rare.
tell application "System Events"
set app_list to name of every process whose visible is true
end tell
set user_apps to choose from list app_list with multiple selections allowed
if user_apps is false then return
repeat with this_app in user_apps
tell application "System Events"
set app_ref to (file of first process whose name is this_app) as string
end tell
tell application app_ref to quit
end repeat
You can persue your idea forever, but I tell you, if entering commands and parameters is what you want, then you might just as well use Terminal. If you want to make an AppleScript ide, then itās not worth the trouble. On top of that, you already have one that is much more powerful then just quitting apps. It even has syntax checks!
Some other apps have syntax checks also, like bbedit, Tex-Edit Plus, Smile, etc. (beyond the freeware and partial).
Personally, trying to build your own ide with AppleScript is pretty useless in my opinion and is just a waste of time.
I take that back. I was trying to build a python ide in AppleScript. Itās ok, but there are many hurdles. I donāt like the MacPython ide, but it is much better than anything you could write with AppleScirpt, not to mention speed.
The secret to speed with AppleScript, is knowing text manipulation. Especially is you have a lot of data; you want to deal with text because lists just canāt hack it.
I have never found a good answer to this question which is the sticking point in creating a good database. What is the best way to make key value pairs with AppleScirpt in a text file. What I do is store the values in a list and store the keys in a table by blocks.So say you wanted to find the millionth block, you would search for the key with offset of. After you get the offset you just divide by the length of the block. Anybody know a faster way to search?
