Going mad at Applescripts

Barks · 4 Sep 2009 at 20:59

New to Mac. From what i can see you write a script and save it as an APP and then that can be run.

I'm trying to configure the mighty mouse so that a certain button plays the next track in iTunes but I can't find a script that simply does this.

Can anyone help?

Cheers

Vonhelmet · 4 Sep 2009 at 22:10

tell application "iTunes"
next track
end tell

Save that as a script, then use your mouse preferences to bind whichever button to that script.

mr.sly · 4 Sep 2009 at 22:34

Is it possible to bind the script to a keyboard shortcut? I can't seem to figure it out.

Barks · 4 Sep 2009 at 22:35

cheers buddy

Vonhelmet · 4 Sep 2009 at 22:55

mr.sly said:
Is it possible to bind the script to a keyboard shortcut? I can't seem to figure it out.

Use an application launcher like Quicksilver? Might be overkill though.

mr.sly · 4 Sep 2009 at 23:45

http://macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/06/08/hit-and-run-launching-applescripts-with-keyboard-shortcuts.html?page=2

According to this I should be able to do it, but it doesn't seem to work. The tick box doesn't show up next to the shortcut after restarting iTunes.

Think I'll give Quicksilver a go thanks.