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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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zimpenfish

Anyone managed to use Applescript/OSAScript to read calendar events (particularly recurring ones) from Outlook? Tried a bunch of approaches found on the internets but everything just returns {} even when there’s 6 meetings today.

(Basically I want Hammerspoon to know when I have a meeting without having to parse ICS files and all that associated trauma.)

#Applescript#Outlook
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Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)

Is there a Terminal command for sending Apple Events?

As in, I want to send an arbitrary Apple Event to an app on my Mac, given its Class and ID, and maybe add an argument or two? The event is not in that app's Scripting Dictionary.

Wasn’t there some AppleScript syntax for that, for the case where you had a script but not the associated app? Anyone know what that was and if it works with osascript?

#appleScript#appleEvents#terminal
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NMDoerner

I keep expanding the #AppleScript abilities of #NeoFinder fir #macOS for improved #automation, and NeoFinder 8.7 allows full read and write access the names of files and folders in Catalogs, and the name of Catalogs and Albums.

While that may sound a bit boring, it offers the unique ability to batch rename a lot of items with very specific text replacements!

neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/view

#Photography#IndieDev
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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela

Today I learned how to create a Finder alias using AppleScript and the command line:

```bash
$ osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to make alias file to posix file "/opt/homebrew/opt/emacs-plus@29/Emacs.app" at posix file "/Applications" with properties {name:"Emacs.app"}'

alias file Emacs.app of folder Applications of startup disk
```

This is for the particular case of creating an Emacs.app named alias at the Applications folder for the Homebrew version of the `emacs-plus` package, but changing the paths above will allow you to create arbitrary Finder aliases from the command line.

#TIL#TodayILearned#AppleScript
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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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