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

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Choose "Cocoa-AppleScript Application" from Templates

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...and save it somewhere.

Add an Outlet

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...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

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

Search for WebView and drag it into your window

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Resize the WebView to fill the window

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Set Size-Settings for automatic resizing

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Connect the Outlet to the WebView

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Adding a Web View

Opening an URL

More

Finetuning

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


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