Beginning AppleScript®

A.3. Chapter 3

A.3.1. Exercise 1 solution

-- Program to give a greeting

set today to current date
set weekdayToday to the weekday of today

if weekdayToday = Monday then
    set message to "Hope you had a great weekend!"
else if weekdayToday = Wednesday then
    set message to "Happy Hump Day!"
else if weekdayToday = Friday then
    set message to "TGIF!"
else if weekdayToday = Saturday or weekdayToday = Sunday then
    set message to "What are you doing here on the weekend?"
else
    set message to "Have a Great Day!"
end if

display dialog message with icon note buttons {"Thanks!"}

A.3.2. Exercise 2 solution

The steps to do this are outlined in the chapter.

A.3.3. Exercise 3 solution

true and true                 -- true
true and false                -- false
true or false                 -- true
false or false                -- false
not true and false            -- false
true and not false or true    -- true
true and not (false or true)  -- false

A.3.4. Exercise 4 solution

1986 - yes , 1989 - no , 2000 -- yes, 2010 -- no, 2100 - no

A.3.5. Exercise 5 solution

The null string becomes 0 when coerced into a number.

A.3.6. Exercise 6 solution

-- Speak salutation based on the time

set secsSinceMidnight to time of (current date)
set sixPM to time of date "6 PM"
set noon to time of date "12 PM"

if secsSinceMidnight < noon then
    say  "Good morning!"
else if secsSinceMidnight   noon and secsSinceMidnight < sixPM then
    say "Good afternoon!"
else
    say "Good evening!"
end if

A.3.7. Exercise 7 solution

-- Simple alarm clock program
-- sets an alarm a specified number of seconds in the ...