Creating UIs with AppleScript

Question

So I am working on some scripts for work and looking at both javascript and AppleScript. Now the main problem I have come up against is there a way to create UI pop ups in AppleScript. I have created a script UI that we can set all the options on export, but how would I do this with apple since that is Java-based.

Silly-V · Accepted Answer

With applescript, unfortunately they only let you do so much before you have to jump into some development program and create a special UI application just for the applescript.

The basic overview:

Mac Automation Scripting Guide: Prompting for a Choice from a List

With the basics arsenal you can at least create some kind of advanced ui by using perhaps a series of pop-ups.

As williamadowling points out, the most convenient way is to use ExtendScript's ScriptUI. You find the reference documentation by Peter Kahrel at ScriptUI for dummies | Peter Kahrel

If you want to do something that applescript can do and not extendscript, from extendscript, do not worry- there are ways to use your jsx UI and then later execute an applescript.

Disposition_Dev · Answer

Just curious, why can't you use javascript to create your popups? With javascript, it's quite easy to send an alert, like so:

alert("String to display to user.");

or are you talking about using ScriptUI to send a custom alert message? If that's the case, you can do that with a custom javascript function like so:

function customAlert(msg)
{
    var ca = new Window("dialog");
        var alertMsg = ca.add("statictext", undefined, msg);
        var okBtn = ca.add("button", undefined, "Ok");
            okBtn.onClick = function()
            {
                ca.close();
            }
    ca.show();
}
customAlert("This is a custom alert message.");

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