Re: Sending AppleScript from Terminal to RR

[Dan Shafer]

Or if you're running the bash shell, it looks like this:
$ exec osascript <<EOF
>tell application "Safari"
>activate
>end tell [ctrl-d]
I guess in the bash shell, ctrl d is the EOF. At any rate, typing \EOF 
produces no visible result.

Nifty
But after I type "\EOF", I just keep getting more prompts.
On Jul 10, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
Kaveh,
Here's a way to do it interactively from Terminal. The following simple
script activates Safari...
1) Open Terminal.
2) At the prompt type the following and hit return:
exec osascript <<\EOF
3) You should get a new ? prompt. Type each line of the script on its 
own
line and hit return. A new ? will show up for each line. When you have
finished typing the script, it should look like this:

? tell app "Safari"
? activate
? end tell
?
4) Now at that final ? prompt, type "\EOF" and hit return. Terminal 
will
execute the AppleScript and activate Safari. So your Terminal window 
should
look like this when you're done (this is from my Mac):

[PowerMacG4:~] kenray% exec osascript <<\EOF
? tell app "Safari"
? activate
? end tell
? \EOF
[Process completed]
Note that this "kills" your terminal window (the titlebar says 
"Completed
Command"), so you'll need to start a new shell window for other 
Terminal
commands after this has been executed.

HTH,
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

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Kaveh Bazargan
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 4:43 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: Sending AppleScript from Terminal to RR
At 3:27 pm -0600 10/7/04, Dar Scott wrote:
On Jul 10, 2004, at 3:04 PM, Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
Stop using AppleScript.  Use Transcript or shell scripts.
Sounds like a good idea. But how do I send a Transcript
from Terminal
to RR?
I'm having a little trouble picturing what you are doing.
Don't blame you. I haven't given much details! Thanks for
your time. It's very informative.
If your Revolution app runs the scripts with shell() then
the results
will be returned when the shell script returns.
Correct. But I decided to go back to sending an AppleScript
to Terminal to run a process. The reason is that I want to
see the shell while the process is running. shell() doesn't
show any of this I think.
I have a number of buttons in the stack. Each start a process
in Terminal. I need a clear sign that the process is finished
(although I can watch the shell window too), so that I know I
can press the next button. This is actually part of a
demonstration, otherwise I would just use the shell window.
I have now managed to send an AppleScript back to RR, by
getting Terminal to open an AppleScript app. The script
actually highlights the button I pressed, so a clear
indication that it is finished.
The script is just one ApplesScript so there is not much to
change to go cross platform.
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