Mountain Lion's Launchpad is pretty good but it's still hard to get something out of it after you put it in if you didn't get it at the Mac App Store. If Launchpad Control is overkill for you, this might help.
Drop one or more application icons onto an AppleScript droplet created from the script below to have those items' Launchpad entries eliminated. You can drag items or be prompted to select them when the AppleScript runs if you don't want to save it as an application. There is some error checking and information in the script. It doesn't do anything to the apps themselves.
You can test it on the app itself. In AppleScript Editor, save it as an app, drag the app's icon onto Launchpad, activate Launchpad, launch the app, then drag the app's icon into the window and press return when prompted.
Drop one or more application icons onto an AppleScript droplet created from the script below to have those items' Launchpad entries eliminated. You can drag items or be prompted to select them when the AppleScript runs if you don't want to save it as an application. There is some error checking and information in the script. It doesn't do anything to the apps themselves.
You can test it on the app itself. In AppleScript Editor, save it as an app, drag the app's icon onto Launchpad, activate Launchpad, launch the app, then drag the app's icon into the window and press return when prompted.
on open the_items
my Lighten_LaunchPad(the_items)
end open
on Lighten_LaunchPad(the_items)
repeat with the_item in the_items
set the_item to the_item as alias
--try
tell application "Finder"
set nameString to name of the_item
set sost to (my get_the_name(nameString)) as string
end tell
display dialog "Are you sure you want to remove \"" & sost & "\" from the Launchpad? The app itself won't be deleted."
try
set my_command to "sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\\ Support/Dock/" & "*.db \"DELETE from apps WHERE title=" & (quoted form of sost) & ";\";osascript -e 'tell application \"Dock\" to quit'"
do shell script my_command
on error the error_message number the error_number
activate
if the error_number is not -128 then
if the error_number is 1 then
set the error_text to "Error: " & the error_number & ". " & "You probably have too many old versions of the LaunchPad database file." & return & return & " To fix that, move some old ones out of ~/Library/Application Support/Dock. You can safely move any file with a name that ends with \".db\" or \".db.backup\" except for the most recently modified one." & return & return & "Do you want me to open that folder for you?"
display dialog the error_text buttons {"Yes, please open it.", "Cancel"} default button 1
if button returned of the result is "Yes, please open it." then
do shell script "open" & space & quoted form of POSIX path of (path to application support folder from user domain) & "Dock"
end if
error number -128
else
set the error_text to "Error: " & the error_number & ". " & the error_message
display dialog the error_text buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1
end if
else
error number -128
end if
end try
end repeat
display dialog "All done!" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end Lighten_LaunchPad
on get_the_name(nameString)
tell AppleScript
set olD to text item delimiters
set text item delimiters to "."
set reqItem to -1
if last item of nameString = "." then set reqItem to -2
set theName to text item reqItem of nameString
--try
set theNameNoExt to ((text items 1 through (reqItem - 1) of nameString) as string)
set text item delimiters to olD
return {theNameNoExt}
end tell
end get_the_name
on run
set the_items to ((choose file) as list)
Lighten_LaunchPad(the_items)
end run
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