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Script: Open Application’s Scripting Dictionary

Today’s script is a bit of a meta-script. It comes in handy if you’re writing scripts of your own, be them traditional AppleScripts or Ruby scripts with rb-appscript.

• Script: Open Application’s Scripting Dictionary
• Application: Any
• Suggested key binding: None

Peek:

processes                  = Appscript::app("System Events").processes
is_frontmost_condition     = Appscript.its.frontmost.eq(true)
frontmost_application      = processes[is_frontmost_condition].first
frontmost_application_path = frontmost_application.application_file.get(:result_type => :file_ref).path
system('open', '-a', 'AppleScript Editor', frontmost_application_path)

This script opens the scripting dictionary for the frontmost application in AppleScript Editor.

Installation is a bit different for this one. Because you want it to be available to all applications, you put it right in ~/Library/Scripts, not in a subfolder.

Get the standalone script file, or git pull if you’re keeping a git clone of the scripts.

This post of part of series about the scripts I use with FastScripts.