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MESA II MESA II AppleScript 55

"Display Dialogue" ("Display"). If these scripts do not work on your system, either

remove the references files of the offending objects or try to recover the missing ob-

jects. In your extensions folder in the system folder, there should be the system script

objects stored in a folder called "Scripting Additions".

You will definitely need the following objects to be present for MESA II scripting:

● Display Dialogue "display"

● File Commands "file command"

● New File "new file"

● Read/Write Commands "read/write commands"

Explanation of terms in MESA II Script

Every scriptable application like MESA II has a "Dictionary" for all commands and pa-

rameters that can be set in your script. To see if an application is scriptable you simply

drop it onto the "Script Editor" application in the Finder. By examining the dictionary of

a scriptable application, you will be able to see which commands and parameters of

MESA II you can manipulate with AppleScript.

MESA II provides a subset of the 'core' Apple Event Suite which is called MESA Suite.

Some editors provides extensions to the MESA Suite. For example, the Sampler Edi-

tor provides the Sampler Suite. These extensions may provide extra parameters ("prop-

erties", "elements", or (also called "objects") and "events") (also called as "commands")

for the MESA II applications such as "sampler" element in the Sampler Suite. These

extra elements can then be accessed via the "application" element in the MESA Suite.

For example the script command

get sampler 1 in application "MESA II"

will return a reference to the sampler element in the Sampler Suite. You can then use

that reference to get at the elements and properties in the Sampler.

Here is a simple example of script that sets the name of the first program in the AKAI

sampler that is connected to MESA II

tell application "MESA II"

set name in program 1 in sampler 1 to "PROGRAM 1"

end tell

Of course, most scripts are far more complex than the above example.

You should look at some of the example scripts provided in the "Example Scripts"

folder included with MESA II.

To find out more about how to write scripts using AppleScript, you should read the

documents called AppleScript Language Guide and Scripting Additions Guide which

should come on your AppleScript installation disks. There are also some good books

on the subject which you should be able to find in the computer section of any good

book store or Mac computer dealer.

Write your own

Apple Script

Save the scripts you

like as applications

and store them in a

new folder in the

Apple Menu Folder -

run the scripts se-

lecting from the

Apple Menu.

Find out more about

AppleScript

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