[Diggory Laycock]

I have been playing with Speakable Items over the last couple of days.

The Help Centre Docs say:

To open an application, file, or website using a spoken command, you add an alias to the item in the Speakable Items folder. You can use a command to open anything you can open by double-clicking.

You can also use a command to perform an action by writing a script and adding the script or an alias to it to the folder

I have noticed that adding an alias (or the original) of a document or app works fine, as does an AppleScript Application (a script that has been turned into an app.)

However I cannot get normal Scripts to work - the Apple supplied one "Open Sherlock" seems to work, but my own scripts do not - Speakable Items knows that there is an item - it shows that it has recognised the name of the item - but nothing happens. Even if the script is as simple as "Beep".

Has anyone had any success with uncompiled scripts and speakable items?

[maxintosh]

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
I have been playing with Speakable Items over the last couple of days.

The Help Centre Docs say:



I have noticed that adding an alias (or the original) of a document or app works fine, as does an AppleScript Application (a script that has been turned into an app.)

However I cannot get normal Scripts to work - the Apple supplied one "Open Sherlock" seems to work, but my own scripts do not - Speakable Items knows that there is an item - it shows that it has recognised the name of the item - but nothing happens. Even if the script is as simple as "Beep".

Has anyone had any success with uncompiled scripts and speakable items?

IIRC, Speakable Items have to be compiled scripts.

[Diggory Laycock]

Hmm - Script Editor 2's save options seem to be different -



I tried Script Bundle, but that didn't seem to work either - it just launches Script Editor.

I suppose I could turn the scripts into Applications, but it seems a little like overkill.