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How to Play things backwards with the help of AppleScript

Jul 18, 2008 12:33 AM
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Today, in this video, you're going to learn how to make a simple program that can allow you to play stuff backwards, like a song, with Xcode and AppleScript on your Mac OS X computer. This application will be well worth showing off to your friends.

Code:

on clicked theObject

start progress indicator "Spinner" of window 1

set my_track to choose file set volume 7

--second, open QuickTime and start playing

tell application "QuickTime Player"

close every window

open my_track

set my_movie to first document

set ts to time scale of my_movie

set current time of my_movie to 60 * ts

--start playing backwards

set rate of my_movie to -1

end tell

stop progress indicator "Spinner" of window 1

end clicked

Play things backwards with the help of AppleScript

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