Hi, Haven’t played with it much but here’s two sites that should help.
https://www.dssw.co.uk/blog/2010-09-09-how-to-shut-down-your-mac-using-applescript/ for the Shutdown command that actually is reasonably easy to find in the Finder Scripting Dictionary. You need to be careful though as the basic command of: tell application “Finder” shut down end tell will do just that. It will shut down your Mac right now, no chance to save or close anything. If you’re lucky, things will open back to the state they were upon restart, but you probably would be encouraged to read some of the extra parameters available in the blog post. For the sound, you can look at http://leancrew.com/all-this/2007/12/playing-sounds-in-applescript/ Info looks fairly understandable. There’s a link on this page that takes you to a out of business software company web-site but if you follow some helpful links on that page, you’ll get to the PlaySound app which also seems pretty easy to work with. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 30, 2015, at 09:35, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: If you can figure out how to get AppleScript to execute shell commands like terminal does you could do afplay /System/Library/Sounds/Frog.aiff to play one of the system sounds, or specify the path to any sound file you want. afplay uses CoreAudio so it should be able to play most common file formats. It also has several options for playback speed, output device etc. For shutting down the terminal command would be just shutdown followed by either -h -s or -r which stand for halt, sleep or restart so to do what you want would be shutdown -h Note that all running apps will be asked to quit and they may do that or they may ask to cancel the shutdown. For example, if you had an unsaved state in an app, when it received the Quit request it might prompt you to save or cancel. If you chose cancel the App might request the shutdown to be canceled. That said, I did find some stuff for invoking AppleScript from terminal which might include commands you could use from here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/103571/using-the-terminal-command-to-shutdown-restart-and-sleep-my-mac Shut down without showing a confirmation dialog: osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to shut down' Shut down after showing a confirmation dialog: osascript -e 'tell app "loginwindow" to «event aevtrsdn»' Restart without showing a confirmation dialog: osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to restart' Restart after showing a confirmation dialog: osascript -e 'tell app "loginwindow" to «event aevtrrst»' Log out without showing a confirmation dialog: osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to «event aevtrlgo»' Log out after showing a confirmation dialog: osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to log out' Go to sleep (AppleScript): osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to sleep' CB On 3/30/15 6:13 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Hi, > > could anyone support me in creating an apple script? It is supposed to shut > down the Mac but playing a little sound before. So the stepps could be > 1. Play sound x in folder y. > 2. Wait as long as it takes to play the sound, maybe 3 seconds. > 3. Press CMD + Option + CTRL + Eject. That’s the hotkey to shut down the Mac. > > Would be great if anyone could help me to realize this. I’m able to read but > not create them. > > All the best > Jürgen > > -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
