Hello, I just had this conversation on the AppleScript Studio list with Tim Bumgarner, the lead developer, and thought that some people on this list might be interested.
If you want to use a little bit of AppleScript for manipulating the UI, you could build easily Perl app with a nice Aqua interface. >À (At) 23:36 -0500 17/12/01, Emmanuel. M. Decarie écrivait (wrote) : >> >>>*** 2. Can I put a Perl script or any other text file containing >>>shell commands in the project that I could call from >>>Application.applescript? >>> >>>Suppose I want to build an AS Studio app that will open a window >>>to choose a file, and then pass the path to the file to a Perl >>>script that will sort every words in the file alphabetically with >>>the number of occurrences for each word, and then return back the >>>stats to the user in a new window. >>> >>>- Could I embed the Perl script file in the project? >>>- If so, how do I get the path to this file to be able to run it >>>from Application.applescript (i.e do shell script "path in to my >>>Perl script") >>> >>I don't have any experience with perl, but you should be able to do >>the following: >> >>1. Create a perl script, say 'stats.perl'. >>2. Add it to your project. This will typically end up in the >>'Bundle Resources' build phase which usually put's it's products >>into 'Contents/Resources' inside of your built application. >>3. Do the following somewhere in your script: 'tell main bundle to >>set thePath to path for resource "stats" extension "perl"'. This >>will return the full POSIX path to your 'stats.perl' script that is >>in your built application. >>4. Pass that path to an execution of 'do shell script'. I'm not >>sure how to invoke a perl script, but I think you get the idea. >> >>You can check out the 'path for' command for more variants. It >>listed in the Application Suite. > >Yes! This is working. I just changed the Hello World example with this script: > >on clicked theObject > tell main bundle to set thePath to path for resource "stats" >extension "perl" > try > set thePath to "\"" & thePath & "\"" > set r to do shell script thePath > display dialog r > on error msgError > display dialog msgError > display dialog thePath > end try >end clicked > >And put a stats.perl file in the Resources folder with this snippet: > >#!/usr/bin/perl > >use strict; > >my $r = scalar (localtime); > >print $r; > >And then build the Hello World app and its working. The only problem >that I had was that I forgot to set executable bit on the stats.perl >file. > >Wow, this is very very cool!!!! > AppleScript Studio list: <http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-studio> -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Emmanuel Décarie - Consultant Programmation pour le Web - Programming for the Web UserLand Frontier - Perl - JavaScript - AppleScript - HTML - XML http://www.scriptdigital.com ---> The Frontier Newbie Toolbox: <http://www.scriptdigital.com/fnt/frontierNewbieToolbox.html>
