Don't do any hacks with BibDesk. BibDesk allows to do everything with AppleScripts quite nicely. To remove a field, make it empty, i.e. assign an empty string value and the filed will be gone. For actual code examples see my script collection at http://www.sysecol.ethz.ch/people/afischli/software
Regards, Andreas NOTE: I have a new mobile number! ETH Zurich Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology CHN E 21.1 Universitaetstrasse 16 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND andreas.fisch...@env.ethz.ch<mailto:andreas.fisch...@env.ethz.ch> www.sysecol.ethz.ch<http://www.sysecol.ethz.ch> +41 44 633-6090 phone +41 44 633-1136 fax +41 79 595-4050 mobile Make it as simple as possible, but distrust it! ________________________________________________________________________ On 23/11/2011, at 16:41 , Di Xiao wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com<mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Nov 23, 2011, at 3:10, Di Xiao wrote: I'm writing an applescript to do the following 1) import bibtex from a webpage in safari 2) generate a cite key according to the auto generation rule set in preferences Below is the part of applescript tell document 1 of application "BibDesk" activate set myPub to first item of (import from theBibTeXString) set selection to {myPub} tell application "System Events" to keystroke "k" using {command down} end tell However, I ran into the following problem. I use keyword groups. If BibDesk is already running and one of the keyword groups is selected, then the the last line won't run because, unless the imported entry has the same keyword, it won't be selected. I checked the BibDesk dictionary in Applescript Editor. It seems that I can first select the "library group" right after "activate". But I cannot figure out the proper way to do it. Any help is appreciated. D. Using system events to simulate key strokes is something of a hack, you should not use that if it's not necessary. In this case you can simply generate and set the cite key in applescript. tell application "BibDesk" activate set theFormat to cite key format tell document 1 set thePubs to (import from theBibTeXString) if count of thePubs > 0 then set myPub to (get first item of thePubs) set theCiteKey to parse format theFormat for "Cite Key" from myPub set cite key of myPub to theCiteKey end if end tell end tell Christiaan Hi Christiaan, Thanks a lot! I was wondering if there is a more elegant way to do the cite key generation. I have another question. I have a script saved in BibDesk's script folder to do some format cleaning after a record is imported, i.e., remove some unnecessary field added by the publisher. Right now what I'm doing is again to assign a menu shortcut to that script, then call it using the system events. Is there a way to call that script from the current applescript? Di ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
