use seconds without units:

Applescript:

set TS to time string of ((current date) + (25 * 60))

or the word minutes:

Applescript:

set TS to time string of ((current date) + (25 * minutes))

then:

Applescript:

tell application "Quicksilver" to show large type TS

and by the way, when you call a handler from your script from a tell block you must include the word "my" in front of the handler call -- Quicksilver doesn't know about the handler.

That change makes your script work (without the last "end" you have in it). You do don't use an "end" statement following a one line tell. You can see from above that there's a much simpler way than you used.

Applescript:

--http://www.devdaily.com/apple/applescript-current-time-example-script-format

say "It will be " & getTimeInHoursAndMinutes() & " in 25 minutes" using "Alex"

on getTimeInHoursAndMinutes()
   -- Get the "hour"
   set timeStr to time string of (current date)
   set Pos to offset of ":" in timeStr
   set theHour to characters 1 thru (Pos - 1) of timeStr as string
   set timeStr to characters (Pos + 1) through end of timeStr as string
   
   -- Get the "minute"
   set Pos to offset of ":" in timeStr
   set theMin to characters 1 thru (Pos - 1) of timeStr as string
   set timeStr to characters (Pos + 1) through end of timeStr as string
   
   --Get "AM or PM"
   set Pos to offset of " " in timeStr
   set theSfx to characters (Pos + 1) through end of timeStr as string
   
   return (theHour & ":" & theMin & " " & theSfx) as string
   
end getTimeInHoursAndMinutes


set today to date string of (current date)
get today

tell application "Quicksilver" to show large type (my getTimeInHoursAndMinutes())

Yeah. You need to add the twenty-five minutes before extracting the time string. 

By the way, lines like:

Applescript:

set theHour to characters 1 thru (Pos - 1) of timeStr as string

… would be better rendered as:

Applescript:

set theHour to text 1 thru (Pos - 1) of timeStr

It's a more efficient, one-step process and doesn't depend on the current state of AppleScript's text item delimiters.

I think you could get away with using the 'words' of the time string, which would give you a shorter handler:

Applescript:

on getTimeInHoursAndMinutes(aDate)
   set ts to time string of aDate
   
   set hm to text 1 thru word 2 of ts
   if ((count ts's words) is 4) then set hm to hm & space & word 4 of ts
   
   return hm
end getTimeInHoursAndMinutes

say "It will be " & getTimeInHoursAndMinutes((current date) + 25 * minutes) & " in 25 minutes" using "Alex"

--tell application "Quicksilver" to show large type (my getTimeInHoursAndMinutes())

Nigel I just wanted to say thanks again for your help on this, I use what you helped me with a couple dozen times daily and find it very useful!

I think this does what you have in mind:

Applescript:

set timeStr to time string of ((current date) + 25 * 60) -- you add seconds
tell application "Quicksilver" to show large type (get timeStr)

or in shorter form:

Applescript:

tell application "Quicksilver" to show large type (time string of ((current date) + 25 * 60))

I think I figured it out. Each "current variable", for instance Today, This Week and This Month, are incremented each time the water meter clicks via a single trigger. Every day at 12:01 AM a schedule runs the following script:

Applescript:

set {year:y, month:m, day:d, weekday:w} to (current date)


--Today and Yesterday. Second line in each sequence resets the current variable to ""
set value of variable "WaterUse_2_Yesterday" to value of variable "WaterUse_1_Today" as string

set value of variable "WaterUse_1_Today" to ""


--This week and last week. Only runs on Monday morning.
if w is Monday then
   set value of variable "WaterUse_4_LastWeek" to value of variable "WaterUse_3_ThisWeek"
   set value of variable "WaterUse_2_Yesterday" to ""
end if


--This month and last month. Only runs on first of month.
if d is 1 then
   set value of variable "WaterUse_6_LastMonth" to value of variable "WaterUse_5_ThisMonth"
   set waterUseThisMonth to value of variable "WaterUse_5_ThisMonth"
   set value of variable "WaterUse_5_ThisMonth" to ""
end if


--Prior Month historical data
if d is 1 then
   if m is January then
       set value of variable "WaterUse_18_Dec" to waterUseThisMonth
   end if
   
   if m is February then
       set value of variable "WaterUse_7_Jan" to waterUseThisMonth
   end if
   
   if m is March then
       set value of variable "WaterUse_8_Feb" to waterUseThisMonth
   end if
   
   if m is April then
       set value of variable "WaterUse_9_Mar" to waterUseThisMonth
   end if
   
   if m is May then
       set value of variable "WaterUse_10_Apr" to waterUseThisMonth
   end if
   
   if m is June then
       set value of variable "WaterUse_11_May" to waterUseThisMonth
   end if
   
   if m is July then
       set value of variable "WaterUse_12_Jun" to waterUseThisMonth
   end if
   
   if m is August then
       set value of variable "WaterUse_13_Jul" to waterUseThisMonth
   end if
   
   if m is September then
       set value of variable "WaterUse_14_Aug" to waterUseThisMonth
   end if
   
   if m is October then
       set value of variable "WaterUse_15_Sep" to waterUseThisMonth
   end if
   
   if m is November then
       set value of variable "WaterUse_16_Oct" to waterUseThisMonth
   end if
   
   if m is December then
       set value of variable "WaterUse_17_Nov" to waterUseThisMonth
   end if
   
end if
           

Honestly, this is probably not very elegant. If anyone can show me how to write this in a less "brute force" way, I'd appreciate seeing how it's done.

Last edited by hamw (2013-05-15 09:10:43 pm)

Nigel, of course please move the posts to the proper area. That would be great as I might have some other questions related to this project later.

Appreciate the hints re the script; I am interested to see how your modificatiosn work . Also, yes, Indigo uses variables and values, which make it quite useful for doing stuff. It's a great program if you have a chance to play with it.

Thanks again!

You'll never use date of (current date) because date is already an date object. The documentation is wrong, we'll know but similar commands with other classes won't work either like string of "Hello World!". To get the date in another notation you could use something like:

Applescript:

tell (current date) to return "" & it's year & "-" & (it's month as integer) & "-" & it's day

Last edited by DJ Bazzie Wazzie (2014-12-02 06:16:45 am)

date formatting is never simple, because there are many formatting conventions for all the countries around the world, even you mentioned two quite different string patterns