Came upon the idea of making it easy to create a new blog entry in MarsEdit by quoting the currently-selected tweet in Twitterrific. Wasn’t too hard, only stubbed my toe twice (this is doing very well when dealing with AppleScript).
property kReturn : ASCII character 13
tell application "Twitterrific"
set t to selection
set tweetScreenName to screen name of t
set tweetUserName to user name of t
set tweetID to id of t
set tweetText to text of t
end tell
tell application "MarsEdit"
set newDocument to make new document
tell newDocument
set body to "[" & ¬
tweetUserName & ¬
" / @" & ¬
tweetScreenName & ¬
"](" & "https://twitter.com/" & ¬
tweetScreenName & ¬
"/status/" & tweetID & "):" & ¬
kReturn & ¬
"> " & tweetText
end tell
end tell
I had to copy the properties out of the selected tweet (t) into local variables since once I switched scopes from Twitterrific to MarsEdit, AppleScript complained about how it couldn’t access the fields. This is probably because the property names have spaces in them. Sigh.
I haven’t used the script yet, and may never. It’s more an interesting experiment to have it lying around to see if it comes in handy.
