mac geekery

I have waaaay too many chat buddies to leave offline contacts visible in my Adium buddylist, but I tend to IM a few of my Jabber buddies frequently even when they’re offline. In Adium, you can create new chat, select the service, and start typing in the UID of the contact, but that’s a small chore.

The dictionary for Adium’s AppleScript support is sparse and confusing, though I’m sure it makes perfect sense for seasoned AppleScript vets. I had to trowel around on Adium’s Trac site to figure it out. Documented here, for you pleasure, is how to create a new chat via AppleScript.

Save the following script into ~/Library/Scripts and enable Script Menu if you haven’t. Have I mentioned how much we love Script Menu here at Mac Geekery? I have? And you’re tired of hearing about it? Sorry. So, anyway, for the record, we love Script Menu. Now, you have a script you can select from the menu, or activate via your favorite short-cutting, hotkey-ing app.

tell application "Adium"
	create chat first Adium controller on service "Jabber" with UID "friendly.jabber.person@their.jabber.host"
	activate
end tell