On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 17:03 Europe/London, Chris Nandor wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thane Norton) wrote:
One of my personal favorites is to use a "here document" to supply the code
for an applescript via osascript. i.e.
my $script = <<'APPLESCRIPT'; tell application "Finder" display dialog "Hello World" end tell APPLESCRIPT
local *script_to; local *script_from; local *script_error; my $pid = open3(*script_to, *script_from, *script_error, "/usr/bin/osascript") or die "Couldn't open osascript"; print script_to $script; close script_to;
A much more efficient method would be to use one of the XS AppleScript
methods, including MacPerl::DoAppleScript() in Mac::Carbon, applescript() in
Mac::OSA::Simple (requires Mac::Carbon), and RunAppleScript from
Mac::AppleScript.
Also "system('open', <applescript.app>)" seems to run a tad faster (?) than "RunAppleScript" although it is not AFAIK possible to take Perl variables into and out of AS that way.
In passing I suspect a minor bug with RunAppleScript: in the example given the Perl script dies even thought the AppleScript succeeds.
Coming back to the original question in this thread: "CronniX" is a very nice application which one would be hard pushed to better.
'CamelBones' looks attractive for the kind of GUI one used to be able to do so easily with MacPerl. I have not found any documentation apart from the three "How To's" on the CB site. Can anyone help?
Alan Fry
