Maybe someone could help me. I've had this long-standing problem where I can't get applescripts to run by double-clicking them, opening them with 'open' in the Terminal, or by any other means that calls the system's open file call. Instead, it launches script editor and opens the script there. I have found that saving the script as an application gives the desired effect, but it takes like 5 seconds to start up, which makes this hint absolutely useless. Can anyone help me, or is this behavior normal?

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There is a program in /System/Library/CoreServices/ called "AppleScript Runner." See if that does what you want.

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No luck. Dragging and dropping will not launch the script, and I can't change the application for .scpt files to this in the get info window either, even if I select "show all applications."

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This is Normal behaviour.
The .scpt files can be run from within Script Editor, or From a Applescript Menu.
There are ways to call them from Terminal, but it depends on your version of OS X.

This hint talks about using the code rather than a file in Quicksilver.

What this means is QuickSilver can trigger the code to run, using its own set of keyboard shortcuts.
There are other apps that do this also.

To learn more about Applescript try here : http://applescriptsourcebook.com/
They have AppleScript Tutorials for Beginners and Much more

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