How To Build An AppleScript-Based Cocoa-Application

This page describes how you can build a simple AppleScript Application using XCode.

Creating a Wikipedia-Application

Creating the project

I used XCode 3.2.1 on Snow Leopard (10.6) for creating this project.

Choose "New Project…" from File Menu

Choose "Cocoa-AppleScript Application" from Templates

...and save it somewhere.

Add an Outlet

Double-Click the Interface-File

Search for WebView and drag it into your window

Resize the WebView to fill the window

Set Size-Settings for automatic resizing

Connect the Outlet to the WebView

Finetuning

There is some of finetuning that you might want to consider:

• Save the window position
• Create and set an application icon
• Set version information and copyright
• Customize about box
• Add custom behaviour, e.g. creating an PDF from an web page, or saving bookmarks...
• Adding buttons for something you want to (paste text, translate text, look word up in Dictionary...)

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• Stuff
  • Helpful links:
    • http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/develop/index.html (Please note that, as of now (2010-10-11), the downloadable project is missing the connections between the App Delegate and the UI Elements)
  • You might also be interested in the same thing done with Ruby: 5 Easy Steps To Your First RubyCocoa Application
• Short link to here: http://wurst-wasser.net/t/r.php?u=ASCocoaHow2
• Footnotes: