Re: [applekeynote] Autosave with KeyNote?

>Hi,
>
>May be this question has been brought up before, but I couldn't find
>anything on it in the archive: why doesn't Keynote have an autosave
>feature?
>
>I love Keynote, but it died on me several times and I lost several
>hours of work at very critical moments (like few hours before a
>presentation!)
>
>Is there a way to go around this problem with Applescript?
>
I think there ought to be way of doing this with Applescript, but I
haven't tried it. What I have tried in the last few days, however, is
something different but which calls on the same properties of
Applescript. Although I like iCal, I found that in practice its
window was always buried under a lot of other stuff and that I
didn't remember to bring it to the front as often as I should (like
at least once a day). So I wrote the following Applescript to ensure
that it would come to the front every day:

on idle
set the date_stamp to ((the current date) as string)
set the hour to the fifth word of the date_stamp
set the minute to the sixth word of the date_stamp
set the sec to the seventh word of the date_stamp
if the minute is "30" and the sec is less than 31 and the
hour is less than 12 then
tell application "iCal"
activate
switch view to week view
view calendar at the current date
end tell
end if
end idle

This needs to be saved as a "Stay open" script. You'd need to omit
"and the hour is less than 12" as well as making some other more or
less obvious changes. I may try it myself as an autosave feature for
Keynote (but I have NOT at present), because I've had similar
experiences to yours.

athel

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