On 26 Feb 2008, at 22:36, Richard Holton Pierce wrote:
and I am trying to make a handler that will launch Google Earth from
within my stack and then paste a set of coordinates into Google's
search field.
I think you're going about this in a much harder way than needed.
Google Earth is directly scriptable via AppleScript (with a few quirks).
Stick the following in a field or custom property:
tell application "Google Earth"
set tPos to GetViewInfo
set latitude of tPos to tLat
set longitude of tPos to tLong
set distance of tPos to tDist
SetViewInfo tPos speed tSpeed
end tell
Then use the following function:
function ijwGELib_setView tLat tLong tDist tSpeed
if tSpeed is empty then put 0.5 into tSpeed
put text of fld "setView" of card "applescripts" of stack
"GoogleEarthLib" into tScript -- replace this with the location of
your field or customprop
replace "tLat" with tLat in tScript
replace "tLong" with tLong in tScript
replace "tDist" with tDist in tScript
replace "tSpeed" with tSpeed in tScript
do tScript as applescript
return the result
end ijwGELib_setView
The following should get you started on retrieving information from
GE, but note that you can't currently get Altitude. :-(
on getGPSfromGE
put "tell application" && quote & "Google Earth" & quote & return &
"copy (GetViewInfo) to tInfo" & return & "get latitude of tInfo" &
return & "end tell" into tScript
do tScript as applescript
put round(the result,5) into fld "latitude"
put "tell application" && quote & "Google Earth" & quote & return &
"copy (GetViewInfo) to tInfo" & return & "get longitude of tInfo" &
return & "end tell" into tScript
do tScript as applescript
put 0 - round(the result,5) into fld "longitude"
put 0 into fld "altitude"
end getGPSfromGE
Ian
P.S. Richard - it would be either a KML or more likely KMZ file, as
you say this would then be cross-platform.
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