Running a Script

There are many ways to run a script once it’s compiled and saved. For example, if you saved it as an application or application bundle, double-click it in the Finder or select it and choose Open from the Finder’s File menu. If you saved it as a script or a script bundle in one of the official Scripts folders, choose it from the Script menu in the menu bar to run it. (See Chapter 14, AppleScript Utility, for instructions about using the Script menu.)

In Script Editor itself, you can run a script even before you’ve saved it. Just click the Run button in the script window. If you haven’t compiled it yet, Script Editor automatically compiles it and, if successful, runs it. A typical usage pattern when developing a new script or editing an old script is to type some text, hit the Run button, dismiss the error dialog, type some more text, hit the Run button again, dismiss the error dialog, and so on, until you’ve got it right.