Hi All,
I read the following in the RunRev Newsletter:
Active Scripting
A long standing feature of Revolution on Mac OS X has been the
ability to easily execute AppleScript using the alternate language
variant of the do command. This is can be extremely useful because
Applescript is supported by many Mac OS X applications for external
scripting and automation. For example, you can instruct the Finder to
open a window to the startup-disk with something like:
local tApplescript
put "tell application" && quote & "Finder" & quote & return after
tApplescript
put "activate" & return after tApplescript
put "make new Finder window to startup disk" & return after tApplescript
put "end tell"
do tApplescript as "applescript"
Up until now, there has been no analogue for this feature on Windows
– however, with 2.9 comes the ability to use any Window Active
Scripting Languge in the alternate language variant of do. At first
glance this may not seem like a particularly useful feature, until
you realize most active scripting languages allow easy creation of
OLE/Automation objects.
For example, it is really easy to control iTunes using VBScript. The
following simple code snippet will start the current song in iTunes
playing:
local tVBScript
put "Dim iTunesApp" & return after tVBScript
put "Set iTunesApp = CreateObject(" & quote & "iTunes.Application" &
quote & ")" & \
return after tVBScript
put "iTunesApp.CurrentTrack.Play()" after tVBScript
do tVBScript as "vbscript"
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My question is:
Does it also support JavaScript? As in:
do tJavaScript as "javascript"
Thanks a lot
All the Best
Dave
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