Comments on: Better multi-country support in Address Book

By: winfred

winfred — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:49:26 +0000

Thanks for reporting! Fixed.

By: johann beda

johann beda — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:49:31 +0000

I get a “Download path is invalid!” error when trying the download link at from the download button link:

http://winfred.vankuijk.net/download/AppleScript+-+fix+country+names+and+formats+in+Address+Book

or from the “view the script as text” link:

http://winfred.vankuijk.net/download/AppleScript+-+text+-+fix+country+names+and+formats+in+Address+Book

By: winfred

winfred — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:41:14 +0000

That’s indeed the correct summary.
If a script refers to an application that is not installed, then Applescript opens the script as run-only. Hopefully this can be fixed in the future.
Keep in mind: you only have to *install* Growl, it does not have to *run* in the background, you can still choose to disable Growl in the System Preferences.

By: ETC

ETC — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:36:42 +0000

I tried to like Growl, but couldn’t. Maybe I should try again.

I think everyone has to edit your script, right, in order to copy of the specific settings they need? So if it’s uneditable without Growl, it’s unusable without Growl. Or did I misunderstand?

By: winfred

winfred — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:56:09 +0000

Hi Eric,
Run-only: this is an unfortunate side-effect of Applescript. You can execute the plug-in with or without Growl installed. If you want to edit the script then you *need* to have Growl installed. I am continuing to look into a real fix.
Version history: well spotted, updated.

By: ETC

ETC — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:19:00 +0000

Hi, Winfred. I see you’ve got 1.5.2 out. Thank you. I appreciate all your work on this script. I think it’s a great tool.

I just tried it and got this error message when I tried to edit it: “Unable to read the file because the script is not editable (it was saved as run-only).”

I also noticed that the version history on this page does not have 1.5.2 on it.

By: ETC

ETC — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:53:24 +0000

Every time I edit the script, before the AppleScript Editor shows the script I get a notice two times saying, “Where is the GrowlHelperApp.app?” After I click “Cancel” it eventually goes away and the script loads for editing. I used to have Growl on my machine, but have uninstalled it. In your script I have set the “use_growl” option to “false”. Thank you for the umpteenth time, Winfred!

By: ETC

ETC — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:08:18 +0000

Strangely, enough, when I have this line in the Script

copy {“gb”, {“UNITED KINGDOM”, “UK”, “U.K.”, “U. K.”, “GB”, “United Kingdom”}} to end of clist –

and the country field has “United Kingdom” in it, the script does not change it to “UNITED KINGDOM”. Is there something I am doing wrong?

By: ETC

ETC — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:50:54 +0000

Wow! Mind boggling. I did learn one thing -– the postal city is supposed to be in all uppercase letters for UK addresses. What to do about the actual country? I’ll just stuff it in somewhere. I also see they don’t really need county, but if I have it, I’ll use it. Oh, well! Thank you, though, for the links.

By: ETC

ETC — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:03:09 +0000

Great. Thank you!