Introduction to applescript

Hi Everyone,

Lets start with some intro of apple script.

Open your apple script editor and enter the text below.

[code]
display dialog "Hello, coding-scripting!"
[/code]

compile and run, a display box will appear with text "Hello, user".

Now to listen to your name, you need to enter below code

[code]
Say "Hello, coding-scripting!"
[/code]

Cool, isnt it.

Now to repeat any command (looping), you have to use repeat command, use the below code, to display the dialog box twice.

[code]
repeat 2 times
display dialog "Hello, coding-scripting!"
end repeat
[/code]

To produce a beep, you need to use beep command.

[code]
beep
[/code]

To beep multiple times, just enter the number (the time you want to produce beep)

[code]
beep 5
[/code]

To set a variable, you need to use set command.

[code]
set myName to "coding-scripting!"
display dialog myName
[/code]

Okay, now how to concatenate the text, we need to use & operator

[code]
set myName to "coding-scripting!"
display dialog "Hello, " & myName
[/code]

Displaying a text box, to grab input from user.

[code]
set myName to the text returned of (display dialog "Enter your name." default answer "" buttons {"Enter"})
display dialog "Hello, " & myName & ". Welcome to coding-scripting!"
[/code]

Mathematical operations for variables :

[code]
set number1 to 5
set number2 to 5
set number3 to number1 + number2
display dialog number3
display dialog "Thanks for reading my tutorial."
[/code]

Creating loop and displaying multiple messages :

[code]
set myMessage to {"Hello user!", "Welcome to coding-scripting!"}
set x to 1
repeat 2 times
    display dialog (item x of myMessage)
    set x to (x + 1)
end repeat
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While and if else structure

[code]
set a to true
set b to 0
repeat while x
    if a > 5 then
        set b to false
    else
        set b to b + 1
    end if
end repeat
[/code]

Thanks for reading my tutorial.

Using Applescript to open multiple tabs

Hi,

After starting the machine, we feel to open Mozilla/Safari for browsing our favorite websites. So, we need to open the each tab again and again and enter the url or click on bookmark of our favorite website. This task can be make simpler by using AppleScript.

Here is the code

[code]
tell application "Safari"
open location "http://coding-scripting.blogspot.co.in"
open location "http://www.google.com/"
open location "http://www.nokia.com/"
open location "http://www.yahoo.com/"
end tell
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In same manner, you can use Firefox application, if you are firefox lover. Just replace Safari with Firefox.