Sending AppleScript from Terminal to RR

[Ken Ray]

Kaveh,

Here's a way to do it interactively from Terminal. The following simple
script activates Safari...

1) Open Terminal.

2) At the prompt type the following and hit return:

exec osascript <<\EOF

3) You should get a new ? prompt. Type each line of the script on its own
line and hit return. A new ? will show up for each line. When you have
finished typing the script, it should look like this:

? tell app "Safari"
? activate
? end tell
?

4) Now at that final ? prompt, type "\EOF" and hit return. Terminal will
execute the AppleScript and activate Safari. So your Terminal window should
look like this when you're done (this is from my Mac):

[PowerMacG4:~] kenray% exec osascript <<\EOF
? tell app "Safari"
? activate
? end tell
? \EOF
[Process completed]

Note that this "kills" your terminal window (the titlebar says "Completed
Command"), so you'll need to start a new shell window for other Terminal
commands after this has been executed.

HTH,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Kaveh Bazargan
> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 4:43 PM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: Sending AppleScript from Terminal to RR
> 
> 
> At 3:27 pm -0600 10/7/04, Dar Scott wrote:
> >On Jul 10, 2004, at 3:04 PM, Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
> >
> >>> Stop using AppleScript.  Use Transcript or shell scripts.
> >>
> >> Sounds like a good idea. But how do I send a Transcript 
> from Terminal 
> >> to RR?
> >
> >I'm having a little trouble picturing what you are doing.
> 
> Don't blame you. I haven't given much details! Thanks for 
> your time. It's very informative.
> 
> >
> >If your Revolution app runs the scripts with shell() then 
> the results 
> >will be returned when the shell script returns.
> 
> Correct. But I decided to go back to sending an AppleScript 
> to Terminal to run a process. The reason is that I want to 
> see the shell while the process is running. shell() doesn't 
> show any of this I think.
> 
> I have a number of buttons in the stack. Each start a process 
> in Terminal. I need a clear sign that the process is finished 
> (although I can watch the shell window too), so that I know I 
> can press the next button. This is actually part of a 
> demonstration, otherwise I would just use the shell window.
> 
> I have now managed to send an AppleScript back to RR, by 
> getting Terminal to open an AppleScript app. The script 
> actually highlights the button I pressed, so a clear 
> indication that it is finished.
> 
> The script is just one ApplesScript so there is not much to 
> change to go cross platform.
> -- 
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