Here ’s a quick - and - comfortable OS cristal 10.5 iChat tip ( with a bonus OS X 10.4 form give in , along with a niggling iTunes / iChat confidential information ) for your Thursday morning . iChat , being the good citizen that it is , kill up a dialogue loge whenever someone initiates a chat with you ; you’re able to use the dialog to go for or turn down the chat request . But what if your’e a sociable sort , and you always admit your schmoose invitations ? In that case , the dialog box is nothing but a waste of time and energy that you ’d rather do without . But how can you get rid of it without actually clicking on the accept push button each time ?
In Tiger , you could do this by installingChax , an iChat foil . As of now , however , Chax wo n’t solve in Leopard . ( An update is forthcoming . ) Chax also sum a numeral of other feature , most notably tabs for Tiger iChat users , and it ’s something I used regularly in OS X 10.4 .
In Leopard , however , Apple built in support for check , as well as doubly - come home pasted image to afford them in Preview , so I have n’t been missing Chax — except for its auto - accept New World chat invitations lineament . In digging around in OS X 10.5 ’s iChat , though , I get hold that there ’s a new Run AppleScript selection in the Alerts segment of iChat ’s preferences . Since the dialog box expose exchangeable buttons , I call up I might be able to write an AppleScript to copy exhort the Accept clitoris .
However , I find a surprisal when I clicked the Run AppleScript button : Apple ’s already done the hard work for us ! It included three playscript — one for auto - connect , one for auto - declination , and one to play as an iTunes controller :
So for each type of chat ( Event is text , audio , or video invitation ) that you ’d like to auto - accept , turn on the Run AppleScript checkbox , and point it to the auto - accept AppleScript . If you ’d like to see the rootage for these scripts , you ’ll find them in the top - level Library - > Scripts - > iChat folder . If you want to spell and expend your own script , you’re able to create the same directory social organisation ( script - > iChat ) in your exploiter ’s Library booklet , and iChat will notice them there .
And yes , that ’s really an iTunes restrainer AppleScript . If you ’ve got more than one Mac in the planetary house , set up iChat to use Bonjour electronic messaging ( in Preferences - > Accounts ) , and set the iTunes - owning Mac to run away that AppleScript when a new message is receive . you may then ship the iTunes - owning Mac these commands as chat messages from another Mac : condition , next , previous , dumb , unmute , aid , play , and intermission . Just typewrite each one on a crinkle of its own and press Return ; the iTunes Controller AppleScript on the other end will then tell iTunes what to do .
