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Re: Passing calls to an AS app via shell?
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Re: Passing calls to an AS app via shell?


  • Subject: Re: Passing calls to an AS app via shell?
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:47:26 -0700

On Oct 8, 2004, at 3:13 AM, Johnny AppleScript wrote:

Now, I want to know if there’s a way to pass the string (hello world) directly to a running applet, preferably without the use of osascript.

If I have an applet, say, ‘myRunningApp.app’, which is always running in the background, I think I can pass a variable to it from osascript, and then have it act on it, correct? What I really want to do is avoid the (albeit short) delay created by use of osascript commands. Does anyone know of a way for an idling Applet to “listen” for calls from the system or shell, and act on them, without writing data to a text file?

Theoretically, yes. In practice, you'll need some extra software. Graff's "call a handler" suggestion is essentially correct; the trick is to call a handler without using AppleScript. This is certainly possible, since all you need is to send a properly constructed Apple event, but there's no standard software on the system to do it. osasubr *might* do what you want, but I can't quite tell from their description. If you want to look into how to write the code yourself, read QA1111 (in particular, listing 5).



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