Or, following Ken Ray, I just have
function q
and
function sq -- for single quotes, which can be handy for shell scripts
Best,
Mark
On 13 Dec 2007, at 17:58, Dave wrote:
I find this function REALLY useful for AppleScripting:
function AddQuotes theString
return quote & theString & quote
end AddQuotes
All the Best
Dave
On 11 Dec 2007, at 18:44, Randall Lee Reetz wrote:
Thanks Ken, i was using a custom prop and ran it as applescript.
Works fine. What i still dont understand is why everything went
unresponsive (the finder) and why it now works... Maddening.
What might happen tomorrow?
-----Original Message-----
From: "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: 12/11/2007 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: (no subject)
Your AppleScript should look something like this:
--3 lines, watch line wraps
tell application "Finder"
open folder "Macintosh HD:Users:MeUser:Desktop:myFolder"
end tell
Your Rev script should look like this:
--a do statement is single line so you'll need to unwrap this
--the tricky bit is quotes and spaces in the right place
do "tell application " & quote & "Finder" & quote & cr & "open
folder " &
quote & "Macintosh HD:Users:MeUser:Desktop:myFolder" & quote & cr
& "end
tell" as applescript
Just FYI, there's a couple of other approaches (some are "best
practices") when executing AppleScript from Rev...
1) Put the script into a custom property or field and execute it
(although I wouldn't recommend fields for a variety of reasons):
do (the openFolderScript of this stack) as AppleScript
2) If you need to do it inline, use the \ line continuation
feature to
help make your code more readable:
put "Macintosh HD:Users:MeUser:Desktop:myFolder" into tFolder
put "tell application" && quote & "Finder" & quote & cr & \
"open folder" && quote & tFolder & quote & cr & \
"end tell" into tScript
do tScript as AppleScript
3) Use backquotes (`) for quotation marks while building your script,
then replace them with double quotes before you execute your
script (a
variation of #2 above is shown below):
put "tell application`Finder` & cr & \
"open folder `Macintosh HD:Users:MeUser:Desktop:myFolder`" &
cr & \
"end tell" into tScript
replace "`" with quote in tScript
do tScript as AppleScript
4) Use the format() function to put in quotes (\") and returns
(\n) on
the fly (be careful though as you can't use continuation chars with
format IIRC):
put format("tell application \"Finder\"\n") & \
format("open folder \"Macintosh
HD:Users:MeUser:Desktop:myFolder\"\n") & \
"end tell" into tScript
do tScript as AppleScript
Personally, I usually use #3 unless it's a one-liner, in which case I
use #4 (if it's not too complex), but to each their own. :-)
Also with the upcoming Rev 2.9 having the ability to do "do ...
as ...
<scriptingLanguage>" supporting VBScript and JavaScript (on Windows),
having a good way to handle other scripting languages is important,
IMHO.
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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