A collection of tools and examples for use with AppleScript, Frontier, and HyperCard.
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AYS 2.0
This is a set of externals that allow you to include communication capabilities in your HyperCard stacks.
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Tim Barlow
tim.barlow@lib.utas.edu.au (Tim Barlow)
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c2cp
Here is an AppleScript droplet that changes file extensions en masse. Of course this only works if your Mac can run AppleScript and you have to go out and get _The Tao of AppleScript_ by Derrick Schneider from Hayden Books. The disk that comes with this book already has the AppleScript system extension, so you don't have to buy it separately from Apple.
A set of externals that manage the clipboard, including ClipInfo which shows the resource types and lengths in bytes that are on the clipboard. FromClip which will get any TEXT resource from the clipboard, and ToClip which puts information into the clipboard.
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Jon Pugh
jonpugh@netcom.com (Jon Pugh)
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CommConnect XFCN 1.0
This is an external function that allows you to use the Communications Toolbox.
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Alex Metcalf
alex@metcalf.demon.co.uk (Alex Metcalf)
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CopyFile
Copies a file, optionally replacing an older file.
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Jon Pugh
jonpugh@netcom.com (Jon Pugh)
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creator2MPS
Here is an AppleScript droplet that changes file creators to MPS. This only works if your Mac can run AppleScript and you have to go out and get _The Tao of AppleScript_ by Derrick Schneider from Hayden Books. The disk that comes with this book already has the AppleScript system extension, so you don't have to buy it separately from Apple.
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Dale M. Greer
greer@utdallas.edu (Dale M. Greer)
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Dartmouth XCMDs 4.0.3
A collection of XCMDs and XFCNs developed by Dartmouth University. Complete source code included in the HyperCard stack.
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Roger W. Brown
roger.brown@dartmouth.edu (Roger W. Brown)
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Desk/ColorCover 1.1
This is a set of externals that allows you to handle color in HyperCard.
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Mark A. Klink
mklink@aol.com (Mark A. Klink)
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doFKEY 3.0
Call FKEYs from with HyperCard using this XCMD.
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Jon Pugh
jonpugh@netcom.com (Jon Pugh)
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Eudora and Frontier
Once this stuff is installed, you can begin to enjoy the scriptability of Eudora either by simply using the scripts that are provided or by exploring the many verbs & example scripts in the table and giving Eudora the "personal touch".
HyperCard 2.x stacks remember where you put them and go there when you reopen them. I didn't always want that so I wrote an XCMD to make them forget where they were placed.
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Jon Pugh
jonpugh@netcom.com (Jon Pugh)
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FullHPop 1.7
This external allows you to use hierarchical menus.
A verson of the fairly common XFCN called HPopupMenu which creates a hierarchical popup menu anywhere on a card.
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Jon Pugh
jonpugh@netcom.com (Jon Pugh)
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Inflate™ XCMD 1.1
Inflate is an XCMD which enables HyperCard users and developers to take full advantage of System 7's Balloon Help™ capabilities.
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Alex Metcalf
alex@metcalf.demon.co.uk (Alex Metcalf)
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InterSLIP/AE_1.0b1
This is a small application that lets you control InterSLIP via Apple events.
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Leonard Rosenthol
leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
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Jon's Commands 1.1.1
This is an AppleScript scripting addition that provides added functionality, including these commands: deleteFile, renameFile, moveFile, copyFile, sound volume, set sound volume to, clipboard info, set the clipboard to, the clipboard, execute FKEY, screen list, finder selection, keys pressed, machine environment, play sound, run script resource, free memory, the ticks, and walk folders.
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Jon Pugh
jonpugh@netcom.com (Jon Pugh)
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ListSelect 5.0
This external allows you to present a list dialog to allow to user to make a selection.
An AppleScript addition which allows your scripts limited control over MacPPP. Allows you to open and close the PPP link, and to check the state (open/closed) of the link.
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@wimsey.com (Mark Alldritt)
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Matt's Scripts
This is a collection of scripts for various purposes, including Replace in text editor, Dial Number, Number Lines, and Get Item Info.
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Matthew Ahrens
ai158@freenet.buffalo.edu (Matthew Ahrens)
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MusicBox XCMD 2.1
MusicBox allows you to play various different sound formats, including MOD files.
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Alex Metcalf
alex@metcalf.demon.co.uk (Alex Metcalf)
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Notification 1.0
This external allows you to manipulate the notification manager.
The OSA Menu is an iconic system menu (like the Help menu) that appears on the right side of the menu bar. Its menu items are scripts: choose an item from the menu and the script will run. Some commands are always available, and some are only available within particular applications.
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Leonard Rosenthol
leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
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PICToid 1.3
This external allows you to display a PICT in a windoid.
This is a large library of scripts for AppleScript, a total of 65 osaxen.
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Greg Quinn
gtq1@cornell.edu (Greg Quinn)
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ResourceList
Two XFCNs for handling lists of resources: ListResource, which gives a return delimited list of the name of every resource of the specified type in every open file; List1Resource, which gives a return delimited list of the name of every resource of the specified type in the current stack.
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Jon Pugh
jonpugh@netcom.com (Jon Pugh)
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ResText 2.3
This external allows you to read text resources from a file of your choice.
A series of AppleScript additions which add functionality to the AppleScript language. Version 1.3-1 adds the following commands: Choose Folder, Choose New File, Choose Several Files, Choose Several Folders, Get Default Folder, Set Default Folder, Shutdown, Compile Regular Expression, Match Regular Expression, Substitute Regular Expression, Open File, Close File, Create File, Create Folder, Delete File, Rename File, Exchange File, Move File, Read File, Write File, Get File Length, Lengthen File, Get File Position, Position File, and Get Gestalt.
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@wimsey.com (Mark Alldritt)
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SetFolderFlag 1.0
This external allows you to modify the flags of a specific folder.
Three AppleScripts for use with StuffIt Lite. StuffIt compress will compress files dropped onto it, into individual archives. StuffIt archive will compress files dropped onto it, into a single archive. Add to sit Archive will add items dropped onto it to a user-selectable StuffIt archive.
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Reinder Verlinde
reinder@neuretv.biol.ruu.nl (Reinder Verlinde)
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SysEnvirons
Displays hardware information, including system software, processor, etc. Supports up to the Quadra and PowerBook.
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Jon Pugh
jonpugh@netcom.com (Jon Pugh)
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Textoid 4.2
This external allows you to display text in a windoid.
This is a set of AppleScript droplets that work in conjunction with Symantec C++ 6.0.1.
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Reinder Verlinde
reinder@neuretv.biol.ruu.nl (Reinder Verlinde)
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ThinkRef_aete
Ever wish that you could use Applescript to control Think Reference? Well, wish no further, because now you can. Simply open the file "ThinkRef_aete" with your favorite resource editor (ResEdit will do just fine) and copy the aete resource. Now open your copy of Think Reference ( Don't forget resource editing rule #1: always work on a copy, not the original!) and paste the aete. Save your changes, and quit and you are ready to script away.
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Juan Ingles
DACRXL01.OURX124@TCP30.dx.deere.com (Juan Ingles)
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Vocalise XCMD 1.0
Vocalise is an XCMD that allows your Mac to talk.
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Alex Metcalf
alex@metcalf.demon.co.uk (Alex Metcalf)
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Wild 1.0.1
An AppleScript addition which expands wildcarded file and folder names. Complete with C source code.
