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#AppleScript

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Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)

I always get a bit cagey when people ask if #HyperTalk is like #AppleScript.

There's an inspiration there, but AppleScript jettisons one of the fundamental strengths of HyperTalk: that it's designed to account for human “flaws" and logic gaps and removes the need to think about certain advanced programming concepts, whereas AppleScript actually has that logical structure under the hood and just makes it implicit … until it isn’t and you get an error message and need to deal with it.

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Tor Lillqvist

The first and only piece of #AppleScript I have written. Very useful: Copy the geographic location metadata of one image in the #macOS #PhotosApp to a selection of other images that lack location information.

Script is available split into two pieces, as alt text in the images.

(Yes, I know Photos has Image>Location>Copy Location and Image>Location>Assign Location. I often find running this script more handy, though.)

-- Inspect the images selected in macOS Photos, and if one and only one of them has a geographical location, copy that to the other images in the selection, too. tell application "Photos" activate set imageSel to (get selection) if (imageSel is {}) or (the length of imageSel < 2) then error "Please select at least two images." else set lat to 0 set lon to 0 set haveLoc to false set withLat to false set withLon to false set theLat to 0 set theLon to 0 repeat with i from 1 to count of imageSel set this_image to item i of imageSel tell this_image set loc to get the location set lat to (the first item of loc) set lon to (the second item of loc) set withLat to (lat is not equal to missing value) set withLon to (lon is not equal to missing value) -- display dialog "lat is " & lat & ", lon is " & lon -- display dialog "withLat is " & withLat & ", withLon is " & withLon if (withLat is not equal to withLon) then error "An image has latitude or longitude bot not both" end if if (haveLoc and withLat) then error "Multiple images already have a location" end if if (withLat) then set haveLoc to true set theLat to lat set theLon to lon end if end tell end repeat
repeat with i from 1 to count of imageSel set this_image to item i of imageSel tell this_image set loc to get the location set lat to (the first item of loc) set lon to (the second item of loc) if (lat is equal to missing value) then -- display dialog "setting location to " & theLat & ", " & theLon set the location to {theLat, theLon} end if end tell end repeat end if end tell
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Matt Christensen

Every week I sit down to budget, and it starts by opening Safari with two windows I set up.

It finally clicked that I should automate this, so, here it is! A combination of AppleScript + Shortcuts and it's now one click in my Dock.

I show the AppleScript on the left so you can see it all. It checks for Safari running because launching Safari gets you a window automatically. Second picture is the result. (Two YNAB tabs because I have $ and € budgets.)

A screenshot of macOS showing two windows. The left shows the full AppleScript while the right shows that script along with the full Shortcut steps.
A screenshot from macOS with two Safari windows side by side. The left has two tabs both with the YNAB log in page. The right windows has the Bank of America log in page.
#macOS#automation#shortcuts
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Christian

@ia Wow! I didn't realize this was already working. Nice! This let me build a nice automation (#LaunchBar action) to correct text with ChatGPT. Any chance you'll add support for this to the #AppleScript library on Mac or #Shortcuts? Currently, I need to use UI scripting. It's working but it's hard to share because of the custom naming of sources. Something like this would be ideal:

screenshot with a suggested AppleScript command: "paste edits from 'ChatGPT' with string _string"
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paulrickards

The way it works is this:

1. A print is initiated from a device to the CUPS-PDF driver on my #netatalk Raspberry Pi.
2. The resulting PDF is placed in the AFP share of netatalk/afpd.
3. An emulated PPC Mac 9.2.2 running the #AppleScript below is watching for new files in that folder and will print them using Acrobat Reader to the #ImageWriterII via #LocalTalk using the MacPalette II driver.

It works, but crashes with dialog that I can't auto-dismiss.

Description: An AppleScript that runs continuously watching a folder for any new items. It prints the ones it finds and moves them to the trash. AppleScript: property currentFiles : {} property runinterval @ 5 - - in seconds global folderSpool set folderSpool to "MaclPpi DISK:Print:" as alias repeat tell application "Finder” activate "Finder” type text return open folderSpool set currentFiles to files of folderSpool as list repeat with i from 1 to count of currentFiles set theFile to item i of currentFiles if size of theFile » O then delay 10.0 print theFile type text return delete theFile repeat with j from 1 to 15 type text return delay 2.0 end repeat delay 5 end if end repeat close folderSpool end tell delay runlnterval end repeat
#RetroComputing#VintageApple#VintageMac
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paulrickards

So I have a new MacOS 9.2.2 #AppleScript Folder Action attached to a network share via netatalk. It works only if these conditions are met:

1. The folder is open already in the Finder. If it’s closed, it never triggers.
2. The new item is added to the folder from the current machine. Items added remotely to the network share do not “refresh” therefore never trigger the action.

Is this expected?

#RetroComputing#VintageApple#VintageMac
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