AppleScript for Visual Studio Code

Language syntax, snippets and build system for AppleScript and JavaScript for Automation

Screenshot

Screenshot of AppleScript in Visual Studio Code with Hopscotch theme

Installation

Extension Marketplace

Click the Extensions icon in the activity bar and search for idleberg.applescript. With shell commands installed, you can use the following command to install the extension:

$ code --install-extension idleberg.applescript

Packaged Extension

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

$ code --install-extension applescript-*.vsix

Clone Repository

Change to your Visual Studio Code extensions directory:

# Windows
$ cd %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions

# Linux & macOS
$ cd ~/.vscode/extensions/

Clone repository as applescript:

$ git clone https://github.com/idleberg/vscode-applescript applescript

Usage

Building

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

AppleScript: Run Script – Shift+Alt+R
AppleScript: Compile Script – Shift+Alt+B
AppleScript: Compile Script bundle
AppleScript: Compile Application
JXA: Run Script – Shift+Alt+R
JXA: Compile Script – Shift+Alt+B
JXA: Compile Script bundle
JXA: Compile Application

Settings

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
`defaultBuildTask`	`script`	Specify the default build task when creating a new task file
`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`

File Encoding

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

Example:

{
  "[applescript]": {
    "files.encoding": "utf8"
  }
}

License

This work is licensed under The MIT License

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