AppleScript for Visual Studio Code

[!IMPORTANT] JXA support is now deprecated and has been moved to a separate extension. Please refer to the deprecation notice for details.

Language syntax, snippets and build system for AppleScript.

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Installation

Launch Quick Open, paste the following command, and press Enter

ext install idleberg.applescript

With shell commands installed, you can use the following command to install the extension:

$ code --install-extension idleberg.applescript

Download the packaged extension from the release page and install it from the command line:

$ code --install-extension path/to/applescript-*.vsix

Alternatively, you can download the packaged extension from the Open VSX Registry or install it using the ovsx command-line tool:

$ ovsx get idleberg.applescript

On macOS, you can make use of the following build commands through the command-palette:

You can tweak the defaults for this package, osacompile and osascript in the package settings.

Setting	Default	Description
`showNotifications`	`true`	Show build notifications indicating success or failure
`alwaysShowOutput`	`false`	Specify whether to show the output panel on errors only or on each build
`convertErrorRange`	`false`	Convert error range to line/column
`defaultBuildTask`	`"script"`	Specify the default build task when creating a new task file
`allowMultiTermination`	`false`	Allows the selection of multiple processes to be terminated
`osacompile.executeOnly`	`false`	Save the resulting script as execute-only
`osacompile.stayOpen`	`false`	Stay open after run handler
`osacompile.startupScreen`	`false`	Show startup-screen
`osascript.outputStyle`	-	The flags argument is a string consisting of any of the modifier characters `e`, `h`, `o`, and `s`

The default character encoding for AppleScript text files is Mac Roman. If you'd like to change this, you can just do so in the settings.

Example:

{
	"[applescript]": {
		"files.encoding": "utf16le"
	}
}

This work is licensed under The MIT License.