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Re: Console Output in Terminal?

I initally tried rhino before I found JSOSA - but it didnt appear to
be able to interact with apple events. Do you know if it can?

--- In jsosa@yahoogroups.com, John Love-Jensen <eljay@...> wrote:
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> Hi Steve,
>
> Instead of JSOSA, you may want to consider using a Java based
JavaScript
> engine:
>
> For example...
>
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2003/12/shell_scripting.ht
ml
>
> (I hope my suggestion that isn't sacrilege on this forum. :-)
>
> Sincerely,
> --Eljay
>
> JSOSA:
> http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/JavaScriptOSA/index.html
>
> JSOSA 2.0 (alpha) - modernize JSOSA for OS X:
> http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/JavaScriptOSA/jsosa2.html
>
Fri Jan 5, 2007 2:35 pm

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I'm running a script via terminal using: osascript -lJavaScript filename.js but I can't seem to be able to output any text to the terminal. Core.message is... 		smakofsky
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3:08 pm

Hi, ... The problem here is the osascript tool. There is a 'log' AppleEvent for this purpose, but osascript does not seem to respond to it. Testing from...
Mark Alldritt
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4:39 pm

Ah, ok..: var Test = "Hello World"; MacOS.appSelf().do_shell_script("echo " + Test); Seemed to do the trick. Would be nice to just have Core.Write() or ...
smakofsky
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4:52 pm

Hi Steve, Instead of JSOSA, you may want to consider using a Java based JavaScript engine: For example... ...
John Love-Jensen
eljay@...
Send Email 		Jan 4, 2007
6:54 pm

I initally tried rhino before I found JSOSA - but it didnt appear to be able to interact with apple events. Do you know if it can? ... JavaScript ... ...
smakofsky
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2:43 pm

Hi, ... JavaScript OSA's ability to generate AppleEvents is its unique feature. JavaScript OSA uses the Spider Monkey (Mozilla's C JavaScript implementation)...
Mark Alldritt
malldritt2000
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3:59 pm

Which is the *exact* reason I'd rather use JSOSA. Having apple event support is killer. Being new to the mac world, I'm surprised that OSA (specifically ...
smakofsky
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5:14 pm

Hi, ... That's probably a subject for an entire book. The OSA (Open Scripting Architecture) predates Windows Scripting Host and was a very good idea, though...
Mark Alldritt
malldritt2000
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6:32 pm

... I do not know. I presume it does not, given that it is Java based and runs in a JVM. (Not that running in a JVM makes it impossible to interact with AE....
John (Eljay) Love-Jen...
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