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

...using this snippet:

property ourWebView : missing value (* This is an outlet to out WebView which we created in Interface Builder *)

Double-Click the Interface-File

As you can see, the outlet ourWebView is already visible in Interface Builder.

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: