On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:24 AM, Glen Bojsza <gboj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible to launch Apple Automator shell scripts from LC app?
If by shell script you mean Workflow, then the answer is yes. Try this: Open up Automator, create a new workflow, go to the iTunes actions and drag 'Start iTunes Playing' into the right side. Save this to your Documents folder as 'test.workflow' Quit Automator. Start AppleScript Editor, click on the record button, then double click on your test.workflow so that Automator starts up. Go back to the AppleScript Editor and click stop. In the workspace their should be something like this: tell application "Finder" activate open document file "test.workflow" of folder "Documents" of folder "yourname" of folder "Users" of startup disk end tell To that add the following 4 lines: delay 2 tell application "Automator" execute workflow "test.workflow" end tell So the whole lot in AppleScript should look like this: tell application "Finder" activate open document file "test.workflow" of folder "Documents" of folder "yourname" of folder "Users" of startup disk end tell delay 2 tell application "Automator" execute workflow "test.workflow" end tell Quit Automator. Click on the Run button in AppleScript Editor. Automator should start up with your test.workflow and it should start iTunes playing. If not there might be an error about 'Can't get workflow "test.workflow" If so you need to try a bigger delay. Once you've got that working, Quit iTunes and Automator. You now go to LiveCode, New Stack, drag a button onto it. The next part is the hard part. You have to take that entire script above and put it into a variable, in this case I've called it tScript. You have to be careful because every " (quote) used in the script above MUST appear as the word 'quote' in the variable tScript. You have to also add all the carriage returns - cr So basically: tell application "Finder" becomes: "tell application " & quote & "Finder" & quote The final script for your button should look like this: on mouseUp put "tell application " & quote & "Finder" & quote & cr & \ "activate" & cr & \ "open document file " & quote & "test.workflow" & quote & " of folder " & quote & "Documents" & quote & " of folder " & quote & "yourname" & quote & " of folder " & quote & "Users" & quote & " of startup disk" & cr & \ "end tell" & cr & \ "delay 2" & cr & \ "tell application " & quote & "Automator" & quote & cr & \ "execute workflow " & quote & "test.workflow" & quote & cr & \ "end tell" into tScript do tScript as "AppleScript" end mouseUp If it doesn't work, add a breakpoint and stop at the: put "......... ......." into tScript line and double check what is in tScript looks exactly the same - same number of lines, same quotes, as it appears in the AppleScript Editor. Once you have it perfect then: do tScript as "AppleScript" will cause AppleScript to launch, which will then launch your workflow. Practically, if you create the workflow as described, and give it the name 'test.workflow'. You should be able to just copy and past the LiveCode script here into your button, change 'yourname' to whatever your computer account name is and it should work. The only gotcha is you have to careful of linebreaks as email clients have a tendency to add hard line wraps where there is a soft line wrap: - the 4th line is very long 1st line: on mouseUp 7 lines which all end in: cr & \ 9th line: "end tell" into tScript blank line do tScript as "AppleScript" blank line last line: end mouseUp 13 lines total _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
