I’m trying to figure this out myself. Not there yet, but in the right direction: Each Mission Control “space” gets a uuid assigned to it… …except for the very first one (AFAIK), and the Dashboard one. You can read them here: $ defaults read com.apple.spaces $ defaults read com.apple.desktop File locations: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spaces.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist Here’s mine. … Read more
It is still there. Make sure you click everywhere indicated in red in the image below.
instruments -t /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/Library/Instruments/\ PlugIns/AutomationInstrument.bundle/Contents/Resources/Automation.tracetemplate \ <full_path_to_application> -e UIASCRIPT <path_to_script.js> \ -e UIARESULTSPATH <output_results_path> for xcode >= 4.5 instruments -t /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Instruments.app/Contents/PlugIns/\ AutomationInstrument.bundle/Contents/Resources/Automation.tracetemplate \ <full_path_to_application> -e UIASCRIPT <path_to_script.js> \ -e UIARESULTSPATH <output_results_path> for xcode >= 6.1 instruments -w <device ID> -t \ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Instruments.app/Contents/PlugIns/\ AutomationInstrument.xrplugin/Contents/Resources/Automation.tracetemplate \ <full_path_to_application> -e UIASCRIPT <path_to_script.js> \ -e UIARESULTSPATH <output_results_path> There a few important … Read more
I suspect the reason you are getting this is because each time you call the script from the command line with osascript the script is being compiled. The act of compiling on a tell application will afaik make the app launch. Calling the script from the command line with osascript from a pre-compiled file i.e … Read more
The latest versions of xcode will let you create an AppleScript application but breakpoints in applescript don’t work since Apple has discontinued support for AppleScript debugging in xcode. Fallback: for simple “printf style” debugging you could use: display dialog “my variable: ” & myVar
You can use the log command, which puts messages into the Log History window, e.g.:
AppleScript doesn’t make it easy: log only logs while running in AppleScript Editor or when running via osascript (to stderr in that case) – the output will be lost in other cases, such as when applications run a script with the NSAppleScript Cocoa class. log only accepts one argument; while it does accept any object … Read more
from the directory containing index.html, try… open ./index.html the open command opens a file (or directory, or URL). open is included with MacOSx. specifics and options can be found using man open note: default application is determined via LaunchServices.
Use osascript. For example: osascript -e ‘tell app “Finder” to display dialog “Hello World”‘ Replacing “Finder” with whatever app you desire. Note if that app is backgrounded, the dialog will appear in the background too. To always show in the foreground, use “System Events” as the app: osascript -e ‘tell app “System Events” to display … Read more
tput bel works in most shells. In OS X, this (and any other command that makes the bell go off) also gets you a badge if the command is executed when Terminal was not in the foreground: