Re: Re: AppleScript Read file in Filemaker
Re: Re: AppleScript Read file in Filemaker
- Subject: Re: Re: AppleScript Read file in Filemaker
- From: Hanaan Rosenthal <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:03:17 -0500
- Organization: Custom Flow Solutions
Oh, yes, I now remember having the same problem.
The read and write commands don't work from within a filemaker script.
Enclose them in a finder tell block and you should do fine.
Hanaan
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I'll admit that the way I dealt with EOF in this particular script was
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clunky, but the real problem is that it will no longer compile and run
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in Filemaker -- when it did before.
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If I run the [perform Applescript] script step on a calculated field I
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get the error. If I paste the script into the script step as script
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text, Filemaker complies it when I click the OK button and immediately
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reports the same error. It also hi-lights whatever comes immediately
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after the read command (in this case the word "file").
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I'm thinking something is wrong with the syntax of the line:
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set theData to (read file theFIle from filePos to filePos + 30000)
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I am hoping it can be improved or worked around.
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BTW, I've messed around with file specifications etc. thinking that
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might be it, but no matter what I try the problem appears to be with
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the use of the "read" command from the AppleScript standard additions.
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Jim
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> Hello Jim,
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> Here's what I think is happening:
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> The script repeats while filePos is less than EOF, but in the read
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> file command
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> you read from filePos to filePos + 30000.
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> You have to check if (filePos + 30000) is less than EOF.
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> Hanaan
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>> I have an AppleScript which I run from within FileMaker using the
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>> [perform Applescript] script step. This script reads data from a text
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>> file in chunks so my database can process it. The data file comes
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>> from
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>> a piece of lab equipment that outputs a text file that is gibberish --
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>> no delimiters or intelligent formatting -- which is why I need to
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>> parse
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>> it. I have considered switching to a plug-in, but I have many users
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>> and don't want to hassle with the licensing issues.
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>> I'm running FileMaker 6 on MacOSX - Panther.
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>> This script used to work, but something has changed and I now get
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>> errors (maybe Panther?). It does work fine if I run it in the
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>> AppleScript Script Editor, but from within FileMaker I get the error.
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>> Here's part of the script:
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>> repeat while filePos < (get eof file theFIle)
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>> set theData to (read file theFIle from filePos to filePos +
30000)
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>> tell application "FileMaker Developer"
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>> set data cell "Data_g" of current record to theData as
string
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>> end tell
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>> -- then run my script to process the data
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>> end repeat
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>> close access
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>> The error is: Expected "," but found identifier. (Error - 2741).
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>> FileMaker appears to be gagging on the "read file" in line two of the
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>> code.
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>> Any ideas?
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