Hi Kay, This was exactly what I was looking for and answers a lot of my questions.
Thanks! Glen On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:29 AM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
