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Appendix A - Scripting Additions at a Glance

Scripting Addition Commands

Table A-1 summarizes the scripting addition commands described in this guide and their syntax.

Table A-1: Command syntax for standard AppleScript scripting additions

Command	Syntax	Result
activate	activate referenceToApplication	None
ASCII character	ASCII character integer	String
ASCII number	ASCII number string	Integer
beep	beep	None
	beep integer	None
choose application	choose application	Reference
	choose application ÿ with prompt dialogString
	choose application ÿ application label dialogString
	choose application ÿ with prompt dialogString ÿ application label dialogString
choose file	choose file	Reference
	choose file with prompt dialogString
	choose file of type listOfTypes
	choose file with prompt dialogString ÿ of type listOfTypes
choose folder	choose folder	Reference
	choose folder with prompt dialogString
close access	close access referenceToFile	Error code
current date	current date	Date
display dialog	display dialog dialogString ÿ [ default answer dialogString ] ÿ [ buttons buttonList ] ÿ [ default button integer | dialogString] ÿ [ with icon integer | dialogString ]	Record with two properties, Button Returned (a string) and Text Returned (a string)
get eof	get eof referenceToFile	Integer
info for	info for referenceToFile	File Info record
list disks	list disks	List of strings
list folder	list folder referenceToFolder	List of strings
load script	load script referenceToFile	Script object
log	log string	None
new file	new file	Reference
	new file with prompt dialogString
)	new file default name dialogString
	new file with prompt dialogString ¬ default name dialogString
offset	offset of string in string	Integer
open for access	open for access referenceToFile	File reference number
	open for access referenceToFile ¬ write permission Boolean
path to	path to folderOrApplication	Alias or string
	path to folderOrApplication ¬ as className
random number	random number ¬ [ number ] ¬ [ from number to number] ¬ [ with seed number ]	Integer or real value
read	read referenceToFile ¬ [ from integer ] ¬ [ for integer | to integer ¬ | until string | before string ] ¬ [ as className ¬ [ using delimiter[s] delimiters ]]	Requested data
round	round number	Integer
	round number ¬ rounding ( up | down | ¬ toward zero | to nearest )
run script	run script referenceOrString	Value returned by script that is run
	run script referenceOrString ¬ with parameters listOfParameters
	run script referenceOrString ¬ in scriptingComponent
	run script referenceOrString ¬ with parameters listOfParameters ¬ in scriptingComponent
scripting components	scripting components	List of strings
set eof	set eof referenceToFile to integer	None
start log	start log	None
stop log	stop log	None
store script	store script scriptObjectVariable	None
	store script scriptObjectVariable ¬ in referenceToFile
	store script scriptObjectVariable ¬ replacing ( ask | yes | no )
	store script scriptObjectVariable ¬ in referenceToFile ¬ replacing ( ask | yes | no )
time to GMT	time to GMT	Integer
write	write dataToWrite to referenceToFile	None
	write dataToWrite to referenceToFile ¬ for integer
	write dataToWrite to referenceToFile ¬ starting at integer
	write dataToWrite to referenceToFile ¬ for integer ¬ starting at integer