Applescript

Complete Newbie here with regards to AppleScript. I'm trying to make my own quick-key shortcut on an old Classic application (Hypercard) where there is no shortcut. I need to delete 365 cards from a stack. 'Delete Card' has no quick key shortcut. I'm hoping I can assign an 'F' key (F4 or F5) to trigger a script that would tell Hypercard to delete the current card. Can...

This month's meeting will serve as an opened discussion about AppleScript, AppleScript Studio, and Automator. Members are encouraged to bring their own scripts to show at the meeting. ...

I'm not quite sure if this belongs here or in the general Mac OSX section, but since It does have to do with AppleScript and programming, I figured this would be the best place for it. ...

Can an applescript detect file open/close or application start/shutdown events? Can an applescript sit in the background and open another application whenever it detects that a file has been opened or closed, or an application (other than the one this script opens) has been started or quit from? If so, can someone point me to the appropriate section of the...

I would like to run an applescript that mounts a shared application for members of a specific group in my OD directory. Is there a way to do this in tiger. ...

Hi, In Mail's applescript functionality, there is a method called "New outgoing message" i wish to override this, so that when my script is running, whenever a new outgoing message is called, my script runs. Could someone help? Thanks Sapsi

I don't know AppleScript, but start to think about learning it. I have a website and am the webmaster there. I get a lot of standard question mails. Before I used MailTemplate which was a great application for standard replies. It could take the name etc. and implement automaticaly in the reply like this: Now I wonder if I can make some thing similar in AppleScript?

et a particular file as the desktop background using Applescript, but I can't work out how to go about setting the active folder for a random cycle. Recording an Applescript doesn't seem to work either. ...

Does anyone know how to retrieve Office X save points through Applescript or Shell Scripting? ...

Okay, using Applescript Studio, I am trying to take a set of comma delimited data that is in a variable and fill a table. I am not having much luck. ...