RE: FMPro to Contacts (AddressBook)
RE: FMPro to Contacts (AddressBook)
- Subject: RE: FMPro to Contacts (AddressBook)
- From: Jim Weisbin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:07:54 -0500
FM and Applescript form a very a potent combination. So much of what we do in FM11 is AS scripted in some way or other. Having said that, I wish someone would write a program to parse an Applescript and add all the escape codes required for a “Calculated” Applescript in FM. Most of my time spent writing these is just trying to figure out syntax to escape the double quote characters. Especially if you are calling a shell script from within your calculated Applescript. For example, this is part of a script which calculates your IP address. It took me awhile to figure out all those backslashes!
"tell application \"Finder\”¶ ... set my_interface to do shell script \"netstat -rn -f inet | egrep \\\"^default\\\" | awk '{print $6}' \"¶ ... end tell ¶ "
I've been asleep for a few years when it comes to AppleScript
and FileMaker... Has the AppleScripting in FileMaker improved? Is it good
enough to use now?
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