AppleScript for Visual Studio Code

Language syntax, snippets and build system for AppleScript and JavaScript for Automation

Screenshot

Screenshot of AppleScript in Visual Studio Code with Hopscotch theme

Installation

Launch Quick Open, paste the following command, and press Enter

ext install idleberg.applescript

With shell commands installed, you can use the following command to install the extension:

$ code --install-extension idleberg.applescript

Download the packaged extension from the the release page and install it from the command-line:

$ code --install-extension path/to/applescript-*.vsix

Alternatively, you can download the packaged extension from the Open VSX Registry or install it using the ovsx command-line tool:

$ ovsx get idleberg.applescript

On macOS, you can make use of the following build commands through the command-palette:

You can tweak the defaults for this package, osacompile and osascript in the package settings.

Setting	Default	Description
`showNotifications`	`true`	Show build notifications indicating success or failure
`alwaysShowOutput`	`false`	Specify whether to show the output panel on errors only or on each build
`convertErrorRange`	`false`	Convert error range to line/column
`defaultBuildTask`	`"script"`	Specify the default build task when creating a new task file
`allowMultiTermination`	`false`	Allows the selection of multiple processes to be terminated
`osacompile.executeOnly`	`false`	Save the resulting script as execute-only
`osacompile.stayOpen`	`false`	Stay open after run handler
`osacompile.startupScreen`	`false`	Show startup-screen
`osascript.outputStyle`	-	The flags argument is a string consisting of any of the modifier characters `e`, `h`, `o`, and `s`
`scpt.theme`	`"(none)"`	Custom syntax theme for binary AppleScript files, which are opened in a custom web-view
`scpt.overrideThemeBackground`	`false`	Allows overriding the syntax-theme's background color

The default character encoding for AppleScript text files is Mac Roman. If you wish to change this, you can do so in the settings.

Example:

{
  "[applescript]": {
    "files.encoding": "utf16le"
  }
}

This work is licensed under The MIT License