05-12-2007, 10:45 AM

Hello, I am working on a script for myself and I am stuck on a couple of things.
I have it greet me and announce the time on boot but I want it to exclude the seconds from the time when it says it aloud.

The second problem is that I have it start my favorite apps on boot, which works fine but I want them to start minimized. I am posting the entire script, thanks in advance.


--say time commands
-- need to exclude seconds
set theDate to current date
set theDay to weekday of theDate
set theTime to time of theDate

if the theTime > 0 and the theTime < 43200 then say ¬
"Good morning Jake! It's " & theDay & "."
if the theTime > 43199 and the theTime < 57600 then say ¬
"Good afternoon Jake!"
if the theTime > 57599 and the theTime < 64800 then say ¬
"Good evening Jake!"
if the theTime > 64799 and the theTime < 86400 then say ¬
"It's " & theDay & " night."
say "the time is"
say (time string of (current date))


tell application "Mail"
check for new mail


set unreadCount to unread count of inbox


if unreadCount is equal to 0 then say ¬
"You have no new messages!"
if unreadCount is equal to 1 then say ¬
"You have a new message!"
if unreadCount is greater than 1 then say ¬
"You have " & unreadCount & " new messages!"
delay 2





-- app open commands

tell application "Terminal" to activate
--tell application "Terminal" to close window 0 I tried this line but it returns errors.




tell application "Safari" to activate
--tell application "Safari" to close window 0




tell application "Firefox" to activate
--tell application "Firefox" to close window 0



--check mail commands




-- lets me know it finished without errors
say "script end"
end tell

05-12-2007, 11:19 AM

If the answers depend on more than a few experienced scripters who might come across your post here, try a specialty site, such as macscripter.net, and its forums.

There doesn't appear to be a search function other than for entire sections of the site, but you can use Google to search for more specific subjects. F'rinstance:

"check mail" site:macscripter.net
time site:macscripter.net
time speak site:macscripter.net
"close window" site:macscripter.net
minimize site:macscripter.net