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Re: [jsosa] Re: Console Output in Terminal?

Hi,

> 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 OSA's ability to generate AppleEvents is its unique feature.
JavaScript OSA uses the Spider Monkey (Mozilla's C JavaScript
implementation) and adds AppleEvent support. The other change is that it is
hosted as an OSA language.

Cheers
-Mark

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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	Jan 4, 2007 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 malldritt2000	Jan 4, 2007 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	Jan 4, 2007 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@...	Jan 4, 2007 6:54 pm
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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	Jan 5, 2007 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	Jan 5, 2007 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	Jan 5, 2007 6:32 pm
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