How To Build An AppleScript-Based Cocoa-Application
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This page describes how you can build a simple AppleScript Application using XCode.
Creating a Wikipedia-Application[1]
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
Add an Outlet
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 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
Adding a Web View
Opening an URL
More
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...)
- 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
- Helpful links:
- Short link to here: http://wurst-wasser.net/t/r.php?u=ASCocoaHow2
- Footnotes: