... Applescript question

Yahh I know.
I'm too lazy to go past the first page of google for this.
How would I go about opening firefox and the having it opening a webpage?

tell application "Firefox" to activate
then what?


Feel free to ask any other applescript questions here, it's something I like to use because unlike C, HTML, actionscript etc, I don't have to do too much remembering or refer to my plethora of text files containing MBs of code.

know nothing about applescripts,
but Firefox (at least on Linux) allows you to specify arguments for initial tabs

Code:

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firefox http://www.google.com http://www.yahoo.com

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will launch firefox with 2 tabs, google & yahoo

Firefox is terrible on the Mac, it supports very little script. I don't know why, but it's part of the reason that Mac users tend not to use it.

You have to fake being a user.

Code:

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tell application "Firefox" to activate
tell application "System Events"
  keystroke "l" using {command down} -- Go to the address bar
  keystroke "http://www.dreamviews.com/" & return -- Simulate user putting in an address and hitting enter
end tell

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Just in case, what would be the difference for Safari?
Also, is this the simplest way to do this? (besides putting the ends at the very end)

Code:

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tell application "iTunes"
        play track 999 of library playlist 1
end tell
delay 250.8
tell application "iTunes"
        play (track 1000 of library playlist 1)
end tell
delay 213.6
tell application "iTunes"
        play track 1001 of library playlist 1
end tell
delay 262.2
tell application "iTunes"
        play track "Bloodmeat" of library playlist 1
end tell

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Alright, how's this?

Code:

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tell application "Firefox" to activate
tell application "System Events"
    keystroke "l" using {command down} -- Go to the address bar
    keystroke "www.dreamviews.com/community" & return
    -- Simulate user putting in an address and hitting enter
    delay 3
    keystroke "t" using {command down}
    keystroke "http://facebook.com" & return
end tell

tell application "iTunes"
    play track 864 of library playlist 1
end tell

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You know, you can tell iTunes to play a specific track instead of a number :P

No, Safari is much better than Firefox, it was written by Apple, so it's very scriptable.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by ninja9578

You know, you can tell iTunes to play a specific track instead of a number :P

No, Safari is much better than Firefox, it was written by Apple, so it's very scriptable.

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Those titles are too long :P part of a symphony and I am too lazy to copy it down exactly.

But if your playlist changes, then the number changes.

The problem with system events is, if the user clicks on something else, the events go to something else. :P I don't do much AppleScript, but delay is in seconds if I remember correctly. People don't have patience, when I open something, I usually click away to something else very quickly, specifically iChat.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by ninja9578

But if your playlist changes, then the number changes.

The problem with system events is, if the user clicks on something else, the events go to something else. :P I don't do much AppleScript, but delay is in seconds if I remember correctly. People don't have patience, when I open something, I usually click away to something else very quickly, specifically iChat.

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Yah, the delay is the seconds in the song because it would skip to the last one with out it.
Safari is really slow with youtube and it has no addons :( I'm terrible at C and html and java are boring, actionscript is for flash. That's all I know .

Youtube is flash, it has nothing to do with Safari. Safari uses the same plugin as Firefox. :P