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I use FastScripts to control Remind, a sophisticated plaintext calendar and alarm program:

Add a reminder:

set f to a reference to file ((path to home folder as string) & \".reminders\")
set remInput to text returned of (display dialog \"REM 6 January 2008 MSG David's birthday.\" & return & \"REM 6 January +7 MSG David's Birthday is %b.\" default answer \"\" buttons {\"OK\", \"Cancel\"} default button \"OK\" with title \"Enter reminder\")
open for access f with write permission
write (\"\n\" & remInput as string) to f starting at eof
close access f

Display today's reminders with FastScripts "display message" function:

set remMessages to do shell script \"/usr/local/bin/rem\"
tell application \"FastScripts\"
    display message remMessages dismissing after delay 0
end tell

Only Problem is that if you display too much text it doesn't fit onto the screen any more. So it would be good if FastScripts would scale the text automatically so that it fits onto the screen.

Daniel Jalkut

Good idea. I'll add it as an enhancement request to my bug system.

Cool use for FastScripts!

isch

Hi. I have a problem with my "add a Reminder" script in Snow Leopard and i don't know if it's an AppleScript or FastScripts bug:

The dialog ("display dialog...") used to be displayed as frontmost window - now in Snow Leopard it is shown behind every other Window.. When i run it from the ScriptEditor it is shown on top, so i think this might be a FastScripts Problem.

Best regards.

Daniel Jalkut

I think something changed in the "display dialog" behavior. A workaround I've been using is to make sure some app is frontmost before you display it.

For instance, I think even something like


tell application \"FastScripts\" to activate

Before you do the display dialog, will help. Does it work?

Daniel

isch

Thanks for the quick reply. Your workaround works perfectly. :)

UsableThought

i have this same problem with a script for Skim. Until now i'd been too lazy to fix it. Now i am inspired to write;

tell my script to activate

which seems to work OK.

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