No script menu in Address Book 4.0.2 after installing scripts

[Andrman]

I have placed two scripts in my ~/Library/Scripts/Address Book Scripts/ folder. When I relaunch Address Book no menu shows up. I’ve also tried putting a simple folder in there to see if it causes a menu to appear and that didn’t work. Any ideas why I can’t get a menu? I don’t want to use the system-wide Script Menu since I only have a few apps that I use scripts with. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is OS 10.4.2

[themacgeek]

item placed in that folder show up in the global applescript folder

check apple.com http://www.apple.com/applescript/scriptmenu/02.html

[Andrman]

So by placing scripts in that folder, they only show up in the Script menu?

Is there a way I can enable a script menu just in Address Book?

[themacgeek]

i don’t think so

though i have seen scripts that act as plugins when you right click n item in address book

[kai]

@Andrman

So by placing scripts in that folder, they only show up in the Script menu?

Is there a way I can enable a script menu just in Address Book?

Not really - but you can do the next best thing:

i[/i] Go to /Users/Username/Library/Scripts/ and check for a folder called “Applications”. If it doesn’t already exist, create it.

i[/i] In this “Applications” folder, create a subfolder called “Address Book” (the subfolder’s name should be spelled exactly the same as the application).

i[/i] Finally, place your Address Book script(s) in this Address Book folder.

i[/i] Repeat steps i[/i] & i[/i] for any other applications for which you have application-specific scripts.

When you use Script Menu from an application set up in this way, your application-specific scripts should show up in the menu as Current Application Scripts. In other words, the scripts should appear in Script Menu only when the relevant application is frontmost.