Re: Basic: scripting OS X System Profiler
Re: Basic: scripting OS X System Profiler
- Subject: Re: Basic: scripting OS X System Profiler
- From: steve harley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:00:56 -0700
on 10 Mar 2004, at 11:12 AM, Chap Harrison wrote:
I am still confused about figuring out what can be scripted in a given
application .
I want to script the System Profiler in OS X 10.3. So I opened its
dictionary in Script Editor. Aside from the Standard Suite and the
Text Suite, which didn't have anything specific to System Profiler,
there was System Profiler suite. Within its two classes were a couple
of properties named 'profile' and 'system profiler'.
That's it. I did a script to "get system profile" and it gave me the
hardware overview.
So I'm thinking - is that it? Are there any other nouns? What if I
want to obtain the "Get Info String" for the AppleMesh kernel
extension? Network details? What if I want all the information that
the System Profiler could possibly give me?
take a look at the man page for the system_profiler shell command -- it
can spit out excruciating detail in XML format.. one drawback to
executing it from AppleScript is that the command may generate a lot of
noise on stderr, which will get mixed in with stdout in the AppleScript
result.. so i would direct stdout to a file and then process the file
contents with something like Late Night's XML Tools
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