#applescript

[chicleeblair]

I teach myself the weirdest shit for fandom.

[nick-momrik]

Set Sound Output via AppleScript

Set Sound Output via AppleScript

When playing music I usually change my office MacBook’s sound output to a Sonos speaker, which is an AirPlay device. Sometimes the connection freezes and I have to reset output my default device and back to the office speaker. I wanted to automate both of these processes, so I found an AppleScript as a starting point. I modified it and created an Alfred Workflow with a keyword trigger. Here’s my…

[oldmanyaoi-jpeg]

if i have to stare at applescript for one more second i'm fucking digging up steve jobs

[bynkii]

Get-DisplayDialog in PowerShell Gallery

My PowerShell -> Display Dialog bridge is up in the PowerShell Gallery at https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Get-DisplayDialog you really want to read the help for it, it’s a real…help 🙂

[retrocompmx]

Historia del Mac OS X 10.1 "Puma"

Hoy en Retro Computing MX recordamos el lanzamiento del Mac OS X v10.1 "Puma", un paso importante en la evolución de los sistemas operativos de Apple.

Este 25 de septiembre se cumplen 23 años desde que esta versión mejorada, lanzada en 2001, introdujo características clave como grabación de discos, reproducción de DVD, soporte para más impresoras, y un notable aumento en el rendimiento gráfico gracias a mejoras en OpenGL. También fue la primera vez que AppleScript Studio vio la luz, permitiendo crear aplicaciones completas de forma sencilla.

Aunque conocido como "Puma" por los fans, Apple nunca usó oficialmente este nombre en su web, ya que liberó esta versión de forma urgente para suplir las fallas que presentaba la versión anterior.

#apple #macosx #puma #retrocomputingmx #tecnologíaretro #historiadelacomputación

[krjpalmer]

MacAddict August 1999

The then-familiar “wait” indicator of the Macintosh operating system was challenged in this issue with an assortment of speed-up tips from “simple software adjustments” to “spending money on upgrade hardware” (with the feature article also including “freakish” upgraded Macs in sideshow sidebars). A “get started with programming” article suggested using AppleScript, RealBasic, and MacPerl.

[brian-webster]

How to make a global keyboard shortcut to toggle your Mac Mastodon app’s visibility

I was a happy user of both Twitteriffic and Tweetbot on both Mac and iOS for many years, until of course Elon burned everything to the ground and kicked out all the third party Twitter clients. 

I’ve moved over to Mastodon now, and while there are several decent Mastodon apps on the Mac, most of them are designed for iOS first and lack one of my favorite features from both Twitteriffic and Tweetbot: a global keyboard shortcut that will bring your timeline window forward to read, then hide it again when you’re done.

Until my favorite feature gets implemented by the apps, in the meantime I’ve come up with a solution using AppleScript to get the same effect. I thought others might find it useful, so here’s how to do it if you want.

1. First you’ll need something to handle the global keyboard shortcut. My tool of choice is FastScripts, but any app that lets you trigger an AppleScript with a global keyboard shortcut will suffice.

2. Open Script Editor, paste in the following script, and save it in ~/Library/Scripts so FastScripts will include it in its script menu. The following script is using the app Ivory, but you can replace the “Ivory” name with whatever Mastodon app you’re using.

tell application "System Events"   if exists process "Ivory" then     tell process "Ivory"       if visible then         set visible to false       else         tell application "Ivory" to activate       end if     end tell   end if end tell

3. Use the FastScripts preferences window to assign your preferred keyboard shortcut to run this script.

Now, whenever you press your shortcut, if your app is not in front then it will be brought to the front. If the app window is already in the front, then the script will hide the app for you. Enjoy!

[weatrablog]

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[nonjo]

Applescript to Switch to Dark Mode is macOS

I found this script online back in 2018 and it still works in Sonoma. Fire it using LaunchBar, natch. tell application "System Events" tell appearance preferences set dark mode to not dark mode end tell end tell It will switch to dark mode and back again, somehow.

[coolcatteacher]

How I Created 3 Awesome Automations with AI

How I wrote an AppleScript to help me print my tasks, project list, and calendar on a routine basis using AI and a custom GPT.

The ChatGPT Tech Support Advisor Custom GPT is stellar. Because it can write the code for you and also because I have specific things about my own personal setup that shouldn’t be shared for protective reasons, I’ve summarized what I’ve done with it. ⚠���A Caveat: Be warned that you can mess up your computer if you don’t somewhat understand tech-speak and how your computer works. But if you’re…

[adamsappletech]

Automate Journaling Day One with Shortcuts

I am not a natural journal writer, and I am a nerd who likes to program as a hobby. So, it seems natural that I could combine these two traits and use Apple Shortcuts to automate a daily journal entry for me in my favorite journaling app, Day One. I used to accomplish this only with AppleScript, with inspiration and help from Brett Terpstra. My old AppleScript relied on a command-line utility…

[nick-momrik]

Making Things in 2023

There were more posts for 2023 than I remembered. January Set Sound Output via AppleScript A Full Bathroom Remodel Electric Toothbrush Shelf Miter Saw Cart Workshop Dust Collection 2.0 Part 2 February Stand for Bench Grinders RasP.iO Breadboard Pi Bridge Tool Pegboard Reorganization Milwaukee M12 Heated Jacket Failures Ryobi Tool Storage March Origami More Shop Updates Update on…

[oldmanyaoi-jpeg]

macos admin will have you googling "does applescript run as root ask for password" and "applescript with administrator privileges no password" and getting results like "here's how to put your password in the script in plain text" and "manually edit the sudoers file on 3k computers + then shit yorself and die"

[bynkii]

An Example of why I think Apple's developer documentation sucks

A quick comparison of bad dev docs (Apple) to good dev docs (Microsoft)

for anyone thinking of complaining i’m being “mean” or “unfair”, I was being *nice* here. I could have compared MS’s OS automation and PowerShell documentation to Apple’s Automation and AppleScript documentation. But why beat a dead horse? It’s no secret I really hate Apple’s dev. docs. Because they are bad. Objectively so, and in ways that hurt new people. For example, let’s say I want to put a…

[beesandwasps]

Urgh, Text Editors

This is a bit of a rant, and most people won’t be interested at all, so I’m hiding it below a “keep reading”.

If you have never done any programming or web design, or have only dabbled in them, then you may not be aware of Text Editors as a Thing. TextEdit on the Mac, or Notepad on Windows, are the very low-end, featureless bottom of the heap for this sort of thing — you can edit code files with those programs, but they don’t have any specialized tools to do common stuff.

I’ve been using BBEdit for this purpose since sometime in the (very) late 1990s. BBEdit has been a good tool for this purpose — it has all the usual features of IDEs like syntax coloring and autocompletion, it does GREP-based find and replace (and before Mac OS X, GREP-based find and replace on the Mac was a rarity!), it can link up to revision control systems like git and subversion, it can either run files directly in their own windows (if they are of a type where this makes sense, like Python scripts) or send them to the Terminal to run on a “real” command line, it has file comparison and multi-file searching built in, it can open and save files from servers using various protocols so you can do touchups of web design remotely, it is one of the few programs which still have full AppleScript support (so you can not merely write macros but interactive macros with GUI access), and of course it has a massive toolkit for HTML editing. Also, it is actually written for the Mac, not a port of something written for Windows or Linux. (If you’re a Windows user, and you have used QuickTime Player for Windows, then you know the feeling you get when you use a program which is noticeably “expecting” a different OS. Most open-source programs feel like that on the Mac for at least the first 3 major releases or so. Some — like VNC — never really get over it.)

In the last couple of years, I’ve just been using the last version I paid for, which was version 12, on my very old Intel-based Mac. But I had to get a new machine for various reasons, and so I’m now on an M2 CPU instead of Intel (which, incidentally, is mostly great — to get this kind of performance from an Intel CPU you’d have to buy one of their top-of-the-line models with massive cooling requirements and a huge price tag, and this is running in a laptop and hasn’t even reached the point of needing to turn on the fan yet no matter what I have thrown at it). That means I have very little choice about upgrading to the new version, which is 14, and… they have changed to a subscription-based license. (You can use the program for free without a license, but most of the features which make it worth using will stop working.) Now, in all fairness, I probably wouldn’t be spending more this way than I have been. They’re asking $40 per year. Adjusted for inflation, I’ve been spending about that much over time, what with occasional upgrades.

(And I have no problem with the idea of paying for software. If you want good software, stuff which is easy to use with responsive tech support and timely upgrades, paid software beats open source every day of the week — and you don’t have to worry about big tech companies like Google and IBM perverting the course of the project as you do with, say, Linux.)

But although I understand the motivation of switching to a subscription model — it evens out their revenue stream so they have a better idea of how much money they will have in future years as compared with selling one-time licenses — the switch does mean that if Bare Bones Software, the company writing the program, goes under, then under the subscription model the program will stop working a year after the last renewal, even if you stop installing OS upgrades and leave the machine exactly as-is. They might do a final release which fixes that problem in such a scenario but then again they might not — even if they are totally benign, it’s possible that they might go out of business so abruptly that nobody has time to authorize, recode, and release such a thing. (Or they might have the old BeOS graphics layer problem, where the one person who actually understands the code dies unexpectedly.) Bleah!

So I’ve been looking into alternatives. There are several.

Sublime Text looks like it’s basically meant to be a BBEdit equivalent; they’re asking $100 for it, which is a bit hefty depending on how long that lasts. (How often do they intend to charge for upgrades, and will there be discounts for upgrades or do you have to re-purchase the whole thing?) I’m doing some evaluations now.

Apparently you can get the Microsoft Visual Basic IDE for Mac OS X which… I’ve heard way too many complaints about it, from people who were actually running it on Windows; it is probably unfathomably bad on Mac. Reviewers seem to like it, but I don’t trust reviewers these days. Not with all the content-spamming review blogs which just parrot marketing materials — and as I say, actual Windows users complain about it a lot. (Plus: if I wanted to fire up a whole IDE every time I was going to edit a text file, I would use Apple’s XCode, which I’ve been avoiding on purpose except when I actually want to compile a program.)

There’s something called Atom, which even the positive reviewers note is slow and resource-intensive, and a lot of its supposed positives either don’t apply to me or are actually things I consider negatives. (“Cross-platform”? Oh, you mean it will have an awkward interface that reinvents a bunch of GUI wheels instead of using the built-in system controls.) But it’s free. Oh, it’s also been discontinued. Well, never mind, then.

UltraEdit appears to be very similar to BBEdit, except that it’s cross-platform (and I have confirmed: the Mac GUI is awful) and some of the tools built into BBEdit are farmed out to other programs which you potentially have to buy separately. Oh, and I just checked and they are also on a subscription basis, except that they charge twice as much as BBEdit. Wow, what a dead end of a program.

Oh, and also there are apparently GUI-packaged versions of a couple of the really awful old CLI text editors, vi and Emacs. I have tried both in the past and would rather repeatedly slam my hand (or, shall we say, any other portion of my anatomy) in a desk drawer than use either one, thanks.

Looks like I’m either going with Sublime Text or signing on for a BBEdit subscription. Ugh.