Comments on: Mac AppleScript: Capitalize text in your clipboard!

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:43:29 +0000

Actually I fixed it and didn’t have enough time to comment until now. Thanks for letting me know!

Sorry,
Nick

By: Spencer

Spencer — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:41:10 +0000

ah, it seems it was just a render glitch. UTF-8

By: Spencer

Spencer — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:16:20 +0000

What charset is this page? The second half of the script appears as gibberish on my browser.

By: Patrick Sizemore

Patrick Sizemore — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:38:52 +0000

Nick, this is a great script. I really like what you are doing here.

By: Martin Michel

Martin Michel — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:50:18 +0000

I recently wrote a sample script, that shows how to combine the power of AppleScript and Python. You can get it right here:

http://joyofscripting.com/wp/?p=138

As a web programmer you should have no problems in understanding the code, it’s pretty straight forward. The whole script can be opened and inspected in the Script Editor.

Have a pretty good weekend!

Martin

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:21:09 +0000

Not a problem!

I wish I knew what all that meant… I’m a web programmer that wishes he knew a little bit more about computer programming. The way you showed definitely looks a lot more efficient and short! If only I knew how to implement it.

Thanks for the comment!

Nick

By: Martin Michel

Martin Michel — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:25:00 +0000

Good evening, Nick!

And thank you very much for sharing this text-manipulating code with us. Nevertheless I think, that it might have been a lot easier to delegate some of the string manipulation to Python using the do shell script-command.

Just compare this whole AppleScript code for creating upper and lower case representations with the simple and elegant Python string functions:

name = u’Martin was here’
name.lower() # lower case > u’martin was here’
name.upper() # upper case > u’MARTIN WAS HERE’
name.title() # title > u’Martin Was Here’

Best regards from Germany,

Martin