http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/ JavaScript OSA-Talk Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:38:20 GMT selva kumar http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/529 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/529 Hello All, I am new to this group. I want to do programming in Mac thru Java to control applications. Regards Selva........... Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:16:13 GMT greenie64738 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/528 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/528 Hi, and thanks for the reply. Though, meanwhile, I found the reason for the problems myself. The problem was that I am a newbie to Applescript and didn't Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:17:39 GMT Mark Alldritt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/527 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/527 Hi, ... I'm not familiar with Vienna. However, if you post the source of your script we may be able to offer suggestions. Cheers -Mark ... Mark Alldritt Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:49:17 GMT greenie64738 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/526 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/526 Hi all, I experimented with Vienna and jsosa and managed to get references to folders and articles but I didn't find a way to flag, select or delete an Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:39:41 GMT Mark Alldritt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/525 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/525 Hi, ... This is a Script Editor bug. This entry on my Blog describes how to work around the problem: http://www.latenightsw.com/blog/?p=10 Cheers -Mark ... Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:30:54 GMT Hardy Machia http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/524 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/524 While I'm not sure my problem is related to JSOSA, it is a JSOSA app that I'm trying to open to edit so I'll start here and hope something has some Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:05:18 GMT Mark Alldritt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/523 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/523 Hi Folks, Here's a tech note explaining how to get the 10.4 Script Editor to open JavaScript OSA scripts: http://www.latenightsw.com/blog/?p=10 Cheers -Mark Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:06:18 GMT Mark Alldritt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/522 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/522 Hi Folks, I'm cross posting this message to all the LNS Mailing lists, so I apologize if you see it more than once. I've begun a blog to document my LNS Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:32:24 GMT Mark Alldritt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/521 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/521 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 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:14:13 GMT smakofsky http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/520 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/520 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 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:59:39 GMT Mark Alldritt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/519 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/519 Hi, ... JavaScript OSA's ability to generate AppleEvents is its unique feature. JavaScript OSA uses the Spider Monkey (Mozilla's C JavaScript implementation) Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:25:34 GMT John (Eljay) Love-Jensen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/518 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/518 ... 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. Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:43:30 GMT smakofsky http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/517 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/517 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 ... Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:54:21 GMT John Love-Jensen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/516 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/516 Hi Steve, Instead of JSOSA, you may want to consider using a Java based JavaScript engine: For example... Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:52:32 GMT smakofsky http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/515 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jsosa/message/515 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