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AppleScript 101 - How do I make random values?

How do I create random values in AppleScript? For instance, if I wanted to create a delay of 40-50 seconds which random selects a number in between there?

Also, how would I do for it text? Like if I wanted my script to type out either "blue" or "red"

example: Set textToType to "The bard is wearing a {blue or red} tunic"

G4 iMac, Mac OS X (10.3.x), busted disk drive too lazy to fix

Posted on May 2, 2010 6:10 PM

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May 2, 2010 6:35 PM in response to eGeekee

okay, so I tried to test out the code and it doesn't seem to be working. This is my code:

tell application "TextEdit"
launch
repeat
delay (random number from 2 - 8)
some item of {"hello", "goodbye"}
end repeat
end tell




This doesn't seem to be doing anything at all, I also can't seem to put the "some item of {"hello", "goodbye"}" into a set textToType/keystroke command.

What am I doing wrong here? Is there a command to make either "hello" or "goodbye" typed that I'm not doing?

AppleScript 101 - How do I make random values?

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