Craig,
Thanks a million for all your help. This template business is the greatest…
Here is a copy of my first template, appropriately called, per the tutorial “Cocoa-AppleScript TableView”
Best Regards,
Bill Hernandez
Plano, Texas
– TEMPLATE PATH : ~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Project Templates/Cocoa-AppleScript Application/Cocoa-AppleScript Application/
– TEMPLATE FILENAME : ___PROJECTNAMEASIDENTIFIER___AppDelegate.applescript
– ___PROJECTNAMEASIDENTIFIER___AppDelegate.applescript
– PROJECTNAME
– Created by FULLUSERNAME on DATE.
– Copyright YEAR ORGANIZATIONNAME. All rights reserved.
– CREDIT to Craig Williams for all his work on the great tutorials,
– and to others whose contributions appear here.
– I don’t know any of them but they give a great deal to the rest of us…
– THANK YOU ALL…
(*
– ±--------±--------±--------±--------±--------±--------±--------±--------+
– [1000] PROJECT NOTES
– ±--------±--------±--------±--------±--------±--------±--------±--------+
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- [2000] STANDARD NOTES
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
At startup, event handlers attached to the application object are called in this order:
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
1. will finish launching
2. awake from nib
3. launched
4. will become active
5. activated
6. idle
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- To Open Documentation
-- Option DoubleClick on ---> NSTextView then click on the book icon
-- Option DoubleClick on ---> NSText then click on the book icon
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- DELETE, OR RENAME ANY OF THE CONTENT BELOW THAT YOU DON'T NEED
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
*)
script ___PROJECTNAMEASIDENTIFIER___AppDelegate
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– [3000] PROPERTIES
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– [3001] Inheritance
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– Any Objective-C class you wish to access in your code must be set up as a property.
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property parent : class “NSObject”
property NSMutableArray : class "NSMutableArray" -- see also NSArray
property NSTextView : class "NSTextView" -- see also NSText
property NSImage : class "NSImage"
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- [3002] IB_Outlets
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- Interface Builder considers an outlet as any property with "missing value" as its value
-- an outlet is associated with a textField, textView, popupMenu, radioButtonGroup, etc
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
property aWindow : missing value
property tableView : missing value
property textView : missing value
property textField : missing value
property show_debug : false
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- [3003] IB_Bindings
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- We connect these in the bindings inspector to the corresponding text field values.
--
-- Note:
-- You cannot connect bindings directly to the NSTextFields above so we
-- create new properties to hold the "value" of the NSTextFields.
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
(*
property theAuthor : "" -- variable used to bind to the actual field authorField
property theBook : "" -- variable used to bind to the actual field bookField
property theStatus : "" -- variable used to bind to the actual field statusRadioButton
*)
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- [3004] Other Properties
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- theDataSource will be an NSMutableArray We set this up in the awakeFromNib handler
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
property theDataSource : {}
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- [4000] ACTIONS
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- IB_Actions
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- Things like button clicks, tabbing out of a field, i.e. losing focus,
-- selecting from a popup menu, radio button group, etc
--
-- Interface Builder considers an action as any
-- single parameter method ending with an underscore
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
on updateItems_(sender)
(*
set selTitle to my updItems()
set theTextView to (textView's stringValue()) as string
set theTextField to (textField's stringValue()) as string
tell textView
setString_(theTextView & return & "[" & selTitle & "] " & theTextField)
end tell
*)
end updateItems_
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- [5000] SUPPORT FUNCTIONS
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- These are functions that support the application functions, and IB_Action Methods
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
on get_time_stamp(which)
if (which is 1) then
set returnValue to do shell script "date '+[%Y.%m.%d](%I.%M.%S.%p)'"
---> [2009.10.13](07.15.41.PM)
else if (which is 2) then
set returnValue to do shell script "date '+[ %Y.%m.%d ] ( %I.%M.%S.%p )'"
---> [ 2009.10.13 ] ( 07.14.43.PM )
else if (which is 3) then
set returnValue to do shell script "date '+%Y.%m.%d_%I.%M.%S.%p'"
---> 2009.10.13_07.15.15.PM
else
-- which is 1 or anything else
set returnValue to do shell script "date '+[%Y.%m.%d](%I.%M.%S.%p)'"
---> [2009.10.13](07.15.41.PM)
end if
return returnValue
end get_time_stamp
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- [6000] APPLICATION FUNCTIONS
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
on awakeFromNib()
set time_stamp to my get_time_stamp(2) -- format choices { 1, 2, 3 }
(*
tell textView
setTextContainerInset_({5.0, 5.0})
setString_(time_stamp & " | " & "Bill Hernandez")
end tell
tell textField
setStringValue_("Default text")
end tell
*)
(*
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- WORKING WITH RADIO BUTTON GROUPS
-- THIS CODE CAN GO IN ( 1 ) "on awakeFromNib" OR ( 2 ) "on applicationWillFinishLaunching_"
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- NSMatrix - used for radio buttons
-- set the initial row to select for the radio button matrix
-- aRadioButtonGroup's selectRow_byExtendingSelection_(1, true)
aRadioButtonGroup's selectCellAtRow_column_(1, 0)
set selRow to (aRadioButtonGroup's selectedRow())
set selCell to (aRadioButtonGroup's selectedCell())
set selTitle to (selCell's |title|())
if (show_debug) then
-- the [number] in the brackets below is arbitrary, but unique within a document, and represents
-- the exact location in the code, whether it be an info message, or error message, and helps when debugging
set s to "[9721] "
set s to s & ("Selected Row is = " & selRow as string) & return
set s to s & ("Selected Title is = " & selTitle as string)
display dialog (s)
end if
*)
end awakeFromNib
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
on applicationWillFinishLaunching_(aNotification)
-- Insert code here to initialize your application before any files are opened
(*
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- WORKING WITH POPUP MENUS
-- THIS CODE CAN GO IN ( 1 ) "on awakeFromNib" OR ( 2 ) "on applicationWillFinishLaunching_"
-- Dynamically load a popup menu called startingMonth
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- Insert code to initialize your application before any files are opened
set theMonths to {"January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"}
startingMonth's removeAllItems()
startingMonth's addItemsWithTitles_(theMonths)
*)
end applicationWillFinishLaunching_
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
on applicationShouldTerminate_(sender)
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
-- Insert code here to do any housekeeping before your application quits
-- SAVE DATA, window positions, last selected radio buttons, popup menus, column widths, etc.
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
try
set returnValue to (current application's NSTerminateNow) as integer
on error
set returnValue to true
end try
return returnValue
end applicationShouldTerminate_
-- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
end script
