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Re: FileMaker Send Apple Event to run stay open app
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Re: FileMaker Send Apple Event to run stay open app


  • Subject: Re: FileMaker Send Apple Event to run stay open app
  • From: Paul Tuckey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:02:39 +0000

Gary, thanks for your help with this.

I have managed to get it to work using the send apple event script step as
you have described though not with 100% reliability. But I'm much further
down the road than I was before.

The Perform AppleScript step method doesn't seem to work in this case
though. The script just sits there indefinitely, I think this is because
FileMakers menus are locked during a FileMaker script so the AppleScript
trying to address those menu items cant reach them and ends up timing out.
The Send Apple Event script step works I guess because it allows the
AppleScript to run independently of the FMP script.

Paul
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> From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:28:04 -0500
> To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: FileMaker Send Apple Event to run stay open app
>
>>> Paul, the specific nature of the saved state of the applet should not matter
>>> as for the sending of events from FM's 'send event' script step: run-only,
>>> normal application, stay-open either one.
>>>
>>> Perhaps you're sending the wrong event? Or your applet doesn't have an
>>> appropriate handler...?
>>>
>>> Are you using an 'on run' and 'on open' or which?
>>> --
>>> Gary
>
>
> Paul Tuckey wrote [2/5/04 9:16 AM]:
>
>> Hi Gary, thanks for the input.
>>
>> I'm not using a handler I'm trying to get FMP's Send Apple Event script step
>> to emulate what can be done purely with AppleScript.
>
>
> Well, any script has an 'on run' handler, whether you type that or not. So,
> I see below that you have some AS code that you wish to run.
>
> This is not the same as you asked, which was about how to use the Send Apple
> Event script step. To run a script as you show below, that is the Perform
> AppleScript script step. They are different.
>
> You really can use either to activate and execute your a script application.
>
> The Send AppleEvent script step allows you to specify an application or
> document to serve as the 'target' of the AppleEvent.
>
> Since the event sent is the 'open application' event, then your application
> needs to have an 'on open' handler. That's okay, because you can always
> say:
>
> on open
> tell me to run
> end open
>
> on run
> ...your script
> end run
>
> You must use FM to send the 'oapp' event to your application. Luckily, the
> script step is designed to do just that.
>
> In your FM script that will activate your external application:
>
> 1. add the Send Apple Event script step.
> 2. click the Specify... button in the script editing window
> 3. choose Open Application from the 'Send the' pop-up menu
> 4. when you do, a navigation dialog will open and you should select your
> application (best to keep it tucked near your DB file, I think)
> 5. close the window and you've built your 'activation script'
>
>
> For stay-open applications which have both an 'on open' and an 'on run'
> handler already, then it is probably best (but a bit less portable) to
> follow your example method (again, which is the Perform AppleScript script
> step).
>
> When you saved your script, you should have chosen As Stay-open Application
> for the type (depending on your script editor, this will be different; and
> for AppleScript Studio it will be quite different.)
>
> To set up your script, based loosely on your example
>> example
>> --My trigger application
>> Tell application "myStayOpenApp"
>> run
>> end tell
>
>
> You will probably need the full path to your application, rather than just
> its name, or you will be asked to locate it each time the FM script
> executes.
>
> Your Perform AppleScript text might be:
>
> tell application "myStayOpenApp" to run
>
> Then, in your script, just wrap what you have below in an 'on run' and 'end
> run' pair, to build the handler. (You don't even have to, actually, because
> the implicit 'run' handler is there whether you type this or not...but it's
> better style, IMO.)
>
> on run
> tell application "FileMaker Pro" to do menu menu item "Arial Bold" of menu
> "Font" of menu "Format"
> end run
>
>> --myStayOpenApp
>> tell application "FileMaker Pro"
>> set fontName to "Arial Bold"
>> do menu menu item fontName of menu "font" of menu "Format"
>> end tell
>>
>> If I run the trigger application all works fine as all its doing is to send
>> the run command to the stay open application.
>>
>> I could be way of beam here but I was thinking if I can find the 4 character
>> event class and the event ID for the run command, and key that into the
>> 'send event' script step that would do the trick?
>
> Wow, you should really just take a look at the FM Help files. They cover the
> every easy Send AppleEvent and Perform AppleScript script steps. FM
> prepares and sends these basic events for you. You don't have to go about
> creating raw AS event code just to target a script object's run handler.
>
>> FileMaker gives an example for the do script event ID but that's all. Is
>> there a way of getting event ID's out of a complied script?
>>
>> Paul
>
> --
> Gary
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