How to display an AppleScript on a web page?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hi,

I’d like to display my script on a web page, for the viewer to copy it. Is there a way to easily ‘convert’ the script so that it can be pasted in html, to display properly on a web page? Instead of simply pasting the text, it would be nice to have the commands in bold, etc, as they are displayed in Script editor.

#2

Hi jakesm.

If you’re talking about posting in these fora, there are [applescript] and [/applescript] tags you can use which cause script text to be displayed with a clickable link that opens the text in the user’s default script editor.

I don’t know about converting HTML for display on a normal Web page. But bear in mind that script formatting is a user preference set in Script Editor (or whatever you’re using). What’s blue or bold for you may not be so for other people, so displaying your own colours and styles ” even if they’re the defaults ” isn’t really helpful.

#3

The formatting is an system setting, not Script Editor setting per se. You can use AppleScriptObjC and NSAppleScript to get the NSAttributed string using the method richTextSource:. Then you can use AppKit.framework to convert an NSAttributedString into HTML source code.