Re: do visual basic
Re: do visual basic
- Subject: Re: do visual basic
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:23:56 -0800
On 3/10/04 9:55 AM, "Michael Grant" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Mar 10, 2004, at 10:56 AM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> To get a result back, you need to write it to a text file within VB,
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> then
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> read the text file back in AppleScript.
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I wonder if you could get around the need to actually write a file to
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disk by running everything through the BSD layer via osascript and
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piping the output back into another script. Has anyone tried it that
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way? I've been wanting a script that will fetch a wordcount from a Word
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document for me and store it in FileMaker. (Clients expect Word's
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wordcount and will make a fuss if I use FileMaker's wordcount, which
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tends to be a few percent higher.)
But VB does not have access to the BSD layer! By the time you've used the
Macscript command within 'do Visual Basic', and 'do shell script osascript'
within Macscript, internal quoting is going to look something like this:
vbVariable = '"""\"\"\"\"something\"\"\"\"""'
and will boggle the mind. It's no big deal to write a text file in temporary
items - there are never permissions problems there . It works well- why
would you need to avoid it?
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Paul Berkowitz
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