This post is for my macad.uk talk: UI & UX for the scripter. It contains various links to things I discussed & (when available), I will update with the sessions video.

OSX Human Interface Guidelines

OSX Human Interface Guidelines, there’s a lot of good stuff in there. But the sections discussed are as in the following:

• Interaction and Input
• Terminology and Wording
• Integrating with OS X

osascript

osascript, this is also available within it’s man page.

AppleScript UI elements

Below is each of the AppleScript UI elements shown, with links to their documentation. These are mostly from this reference.

Display Dialog

Documentation available here.

Display Alert

Documentation available here.

Answer & Hidden Answer

These are both using display dialog, with documentation available here.

Choose From List

Documentation available here.

Choose URL

Documentation available here.

Choose Folder

Documentation available here.

Choose File

Documentation available here.

Display Notification

Documentation available here.

Progress Reporting

Documentation available here.

Other Links

yo

https://github.com/sheagcraig/yo A swift app for notifications.

CocoaDialog

https://github.com/cocoadialog/cocoadialog Link to the main project. If but advised to use that for documentation & the below for running on 10.9+

Loceee’s fork of CocaDialog

https://github.com/loceee/cocoadialog

Pashua

 https://www.bluem.net/en/mac/pashua/ GUI app for creating custom UI

JAMFHelper

If you’re a JAMF customer, then JAMFHelper can also be employed. Below command is how to get the documentation for JAMFHelper.

/Library/Application\ Support/JAMF/bin/jamfHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/jamfHelper -help

Examples

Below are some examples I showed with links to those that exist here currently, with the rest coming:

• Drive & Printer Mapping.app
• Lync Launcher (to come)
• Open URL In A Specific Browser (to come)
• Set Screenshot Location
• Update Framework (to come)

Video