Hi, this is my first post!
New to Mac and been enthusiastically using Geektool and Geeklets to personalise a MacBook Pro over the last few day.
I came a across the script posted below to show a random quote (originally posted on www.macosxtips.co.uk by Bluereef).
On my Macbook, I want to show 3 repeating lines of text, not Randomly), eg.
This is the property of: (then)
John Smith (then)
Tel. +XX 8787676767 (then return to show the 1st line again, and repeat each line at about 5s intervals.
The code below worked because I use only 2 lines for now, so random doesn't really apply!
I've read most of the postings in the Geektool threads, am a convert to Mac, am of an age that remembers the birth of Windows, and know nothing about Applescript ----- so any help doctoring the script for my purposes would be appreciated.
Thanks.
(Original Script Below)
set newline to ASCII character 10
set quoteFile to POSIX file "/Users/papabear/Documents/Scripts/Quotes.txt"
open for access quoteFile
set quoteList to every paragraph of (read quoteFile)
set list_count to the count of quoteList
set pick to random number from 1 to list_count
set finalText to item pick of quoteList as string
close access quoteFile
finalText
New to Mac and been enthusiastically using Geektool and Geeklets to personalise a MacBook Pro over the last few day.
I came a across the script posted below to show a random quote (originally posted on www.macosxtips.co.uk by Bluereef).
On my Macbook, I want to show 3 repeating lines of text, not Randomly), eg.
This is the property of: (then)
John Smith (then)
Tel. +XX 8787676767 (then return to show the 1st line again, and repeat each line at about 5s intervals.
The code below worked because I use only 2 lines for now, so random doesn't really apply!
I've read most of the postings in the Geektool threads, am a convert to Mac, am of an age that remembers the birth of Windows, and know nothing about Applescript ----- so any help doctoring the script for my purposes would be appreciated.
Thanks.
(Original Script Below)
set newline to ASCII character 10
set quoteFile to POSIX file "/Users/papabear/Documents/Scripts/Quotes.txt"
open for access quoteFile
set quoteList to every paragraph of (read quoteFile)
set list_count to the count of quoteList
set pick to random number from 1 to list_count
set finalText to item pick of quoteList as string
close access quoteFile
finalText