AppleScriptObjC app with check marks, asking for files, and moving the files?

That's a lot to try and take in in one shot. Xcode ifself will take you a while to get comfortable with if you've never used it before.

There are some good tutorials out there and a few books worth getting. Plus Apples documentation is pretty good on this.

Here is a link to a tutorial http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=30274 that should get you started. It's sort of an Hello World app. It will show you how to attach GUI elements and Applescript objects.

One thing to be aware of. Xcode is a real moving target. A lot of sites and books will be out of date so keep that in mind if something you're trying isn;t working like the site or book days it should.

good luck

Looking over that tutorial it is a bit out of date but the main points it is doing still hold. Specifically it looks like the Interface builder is a older version then what you have. Now it all opens in one app it use to be multiple apps (xcode editor and interface builder were separate, now they are one).

One book that really help me get started is Learn AppleScript by Apress Not only is it a great AppleScript tutorial and reference but it has a great section on getting started with AppleScript and Objective-C

good luck

With Xcode the way the connections are made and how the property tags are wrriten are very important it is hard to look at a piece of code like you posted and coment on it one way or the other.

Two things, the compile error should have a line number telling you where the error occured. Turn on show line numbers for the code editor and you'll at least know where the error is happening. The part of the message you posted tells us nothing.

Second I'd really suggest you start with soemthing simpler. Do the tutorial I linked to above to at least get a feel for how all this go together. Just a button and a text field to see ow the connections are made is a good place to start.

I can say that

on ChangeFullTrashIconPushed_(sender)

appears correct as far as it goes. But how it is declared and how it is conected to the window are just as important.

If you want to use the code you wrote above then trash everything between the

on ChangeFullTrashIconPushed_(sender)

and

end

and replace it with

display dialog "MY button was pushed"

and get this to work. Once you have that you at least know your GUI is working then you can add the other code back in.

If you have the Xcode/Objective-C Applescript part worked out I woul suggest you satrt a need thread dealing soely with any Applescript probelms you are having.

regards

If you use an alias, the reference remains valid even if you move or rename the file item.

To get an alias of the duplicate file, you can just coerce the Finder reference to an alias, for example

settheDupe2to (duplicateFullTrashIcon) asalias

You can access items in the Resources folder of the application bundle the regular way:

setthePathtopath to resource"trashfull.png"-- alias

or the ASObjC way, using the NSBundle class:

setthePathtocurrent application's NSBundle's mainBundle's pathForResource_ofType_("trashfull", "png") -- POSIX

edit: you can't use path to me in ASObjC, use the above instead.

I'm not having any problems duplicating the file. For testing, you should be able to swap the rename and move statements and it will still work:

setFullTrashIconto (choose file)

tellapplication"Finder"

settheDupe2to (duplicateFullTrashIcon) asalias

setthenameoftheDupe2to"trashfull.png"

movetheDupe2todesktop

endtell

I'm using the desktop here, but you can also use the temporary items folder or a folder in Application Support.