Apple Automator

[Glen Bojsza]

Hi Kay,

This was exactly what I was looking for and answers a lot of my questions.

Thanks!

Glen

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:29 AM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:24 AM, Glen Bojsza <gbojsza at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is it possible to launch Apple Automator shell scripts from LC app?
>
> If by shell script you mean Workflow, then the answer is yes.
>
> Try this:
>
> Open up Automator, create a new workflow, go to the iTunes actions and
> drag 'Start iTunes Playing' into the right side. Save this to your
> Documents folder as 'test.workflow'
>
> Quit Automator.
>
> Start AppleScript Editor, click on the record button, then double
> click on your test.workflow so that Automator starts up. Go back to
> the AppleScript Editor and click stop. In the workspace their should
> be something like this:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> activate
> open document file "test.workflow" of folder "Documents" of folder
> "yourname" of folder "Users" of startup disk
> end tell
>
>
> To that add the following 4 lines:
>
> delay 2
> tell application "Automator"
> execute workflow "test.workflow"
> end tell
>
> So the whole lot in AppleScript should look like this:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> activate
> open document file "test.workflow" of folder "Documents" of folder
> "yourname" of folder "Users" of startup disk
> end tell
> delay 2
> tell application "Automator"
> execute workflow "test.workflow"
> end tell
>
> Quit Automator.
>
> Click on the Run button in AppleScript Editor. Automator should start
> up with your test.workflow and it should start iTunes playing. If not
> there might be an error about 'Can't get workflow "test.workflow" If
> so you need to try a bigger delay.
>
> Once you've got that working, Quit iTunes and Automator.
>
> You now go to LiveCode, New Stack, drag a button onto it.
>
> The next part is the hard part. You have to take that entire script
> above and put it into a variable, in this case I've called it tScript.
> You have to be careful because every " (quote) used in the script
> above MUST appear as the word 'quote' in the variable tScript. You
> have to also add all the carriage returns - cr
>
> So basically: tell application "Finder"
> becomes: "tell application " & quote & "Finder" & quote
>
> The final script for your button should look like this:
>
> on mouseUp
> put "tell application " & quote & "Finder" & quote & cr & \
> "activate" & cr & \
> "open document file " & quote & "test.workflow" & quote & " of folder
> " & quote & "Documents" & quote & " of folder " & quote & "yourname" &
> quote & " of folder " & quote & "Users" & quote & " of startup disk" &
> cr & \
> "end tell" & cr & \
> "delay 2" & cr & \
> "tell application " & quote & "Automator" & quote & cr & \
> "execute workflow " & quote & "test.workflow" & quote & cr & \
> "end tell" into tScript
>
> do tScript as "AppleScript"
>
> end mouseUp
>
> If it doesn't work, add a breakpoint and stop at the:
>
> put ".........    ......." into tScript
>
>  line and double check what is in tScript looks exactly the same -
> same number of lines, same quotes, as it appears in the AppleScript
> Editor. Once you have it perfect then:
>
> do tScript as "AppleScript"
>
> will cause AppleScript to launch, which will then launch your workflow.
>
> Practically, if you create the workflow as described, and give it the
> name 'test.workflow'. You should be able to just copy and past the
> LiveCode script here into your button, change 'yourname' to whatever
> your computer account name is and it should work. The only gotcha is
> you have to careful of linebreaks as email clients have a tendency to
> add hard line wraps where there is a soft line wrap: - the 4th line is
> very long
>
> 1st line: on mouseUp
> 7 lines which all end in: cr & \
> 9th line:  "end tell" into tScript
> blank line
> do tScript as "AppleScript"
> blank line
> last line: end mouseUp
>
> 13 lines total
>
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