That's really cool. I'm a lot better with Perl. But I guess you don't get any of the application tie ins like you do with AppleScript.
Michael Emmanuel. M. Decarie wrote: > 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>
