Do you want an AppleScript connected to the Menulet menu? Or to do that within a Xcode project. The first I don’t know, the second one is set in Xcode using ‘on choose menu item’.
To make an AppleScript with Xcode you have to select >New Project>AppleScript Application. Xcode can’t work with just the AppleScript. Once you are in Xcode, you can double click the Applescript file within Xcode which then opens its own AS editor.
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Edit: Check out the Task List example is Xcode’s ApleScript Studio examples for setting menu items.
That example is not for adding menu items to the menulet. There is a Apple Technical Note that describes the howto, but I can’t get it working. What I did manage is to get an AppleScript using ‘on should quit theObject’. If you then use the ‘terminate:’ action the script embedded in ‘on should quit theObject’ gets called. It works but is not a proper solution.
I also found this link, but also couldn’t get it to work.
Also found this which looks promising, haven’t tried it yet…
Hi Stadsman,
I will have a look at does links, thanks
Because I wanted the app to be dock-less, I had a play in adding a ‘Quit’ menu item at the bottom.
it could not be easier.
(from the intro url I added this <key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>
in the info.plist
In the MainMenu.nib
select (in this case) the ‘External Ip’ item and while holding down the option key drag it down to create a new item
Rename it ‘Quit’
while holding down the ctrl key, drag it to the first responder class.
In the inspector, connect it to the ‘terminate’
Did you get the Timer to build?? I keep getting errors.
EDIT Forget that, got the first part of it working.
the had IPMenulet.m (awakeFromNib:) in part of the code , but it was not in bold so I thought it was part of the code to add, rather than where to add it.
Did anyone manage to come up with a way to add to this Menulet after it has been created, via AppleScript? That would be extremely useful for me right now!
Since the application is a menulet and the main menu and dock icon aren’t shown, I just connected the menu outlet to the main menu instead of NSMenu1 Then I modified the main menu to be what I needed. AppleScript works just fine with that menu.
Basically, follow the menulet tutorial from here to the fullest and then use the info from Apple’s Technical Note to use Applescript inside a Cocoa app.
EDIT: Able to use simple iTunes controls like “Next Track” and so on through the Menu. If anyone wants the files to view, I’ll gladly email them.
EDIT#2: Added support for multiple menu items, all using applescript.
Now to see what more I can do with Applescript through the Menu!
I have a functioning menulet application, and I’ve figured out how to add menu items from the obj-c code, but I would rather work with them in the applescript code, so I thought why not add items in interface builder and then use “on choose menu item” as with the regular application menu. But I get an error when choosing the item in the built app:
Applescript Error
Can’t get «class menI» id 5 of item id 6. (-1728)
This is without any code in “on choose menu item theObject”.
After this I would also want to change the title of the menu item from the applescript code, if that’s possible.
EDIT: Oh, I didn’t see there was a page 2. So I guess that’s the way to do it. Can it be connected to the main applescript so that it can access the other variables used in the code?