Applescript

beep 2
say "Hello World"
tell application "OpenOffice.org"
open "his_file.doc"
end tell
 
set stringToBeDisplayed to "Julia is a pretty actress."
set tempVar to display dialog stringToBeDisplayed buttons {"OK", "no", "xx"}

set theButtonPressed to button returned of tempVar
display dialog "You pressed the following button: " & theButtonPressed
 
set temp to display dialog "Who is your favorite actress?" default answer "What Ever"
 
set theTextReturned to text returned of temp
 
display dialog theTextReturned