I am new to applescripts and i want to automate a little bit of my app.So here is the thing
1) I am using textwrangler as an editor
2) After writing code and saving it i want to compile the file by opening terminal from applescript.I already installed llvm compiler.
3) As textwrangler provides me the a menu in meubar to open script editor so after opening it i am using "tell application "Terminal" to activate" it opens terminal
4) i want " gcc myfilename.c " to be passed as argument from applescript so that as soon terminal opens this string should be passed as argument and executable is generated
Can i Do that through scripts? Please help.
Give this a try:
tell application "Terminal" to do script "gcc myfilename.c"
Running this without the Activate line you mentioned will still open Terminal if it isn't already open, but it won't bring it to the front. For that, Just turn the whole thing into a tell block and put the Activate back in there so it becomes:
tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script "gcc myfilename.c"
end tell
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I don't know what is happeining since it's just flashing by the screen. But I have this code in vba.
Shell "H:\Dokument\Avvikelser\WinSCP.com /script=H:\Dokument\Avvikelser\script.txt"
In script.txt i have:
open ftpes://USERNAME:PASSWORD#ftp.SERVER.nu
put H:\Dokument\Avvikelser\lista.txt /Avvikelser/lista.txt
close
As I have understood it I need ftpes to make it passive?
I can't even start WinSCP from cmd prompt
I need to use a cmd style solution as I can't install software on the computer.
The file is not uploaded when the script ends.
WinSCP.COM is only an console interface program for WinSCP.EXE, you need to have both in the same directory.
See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/executables
I made an exe file of labview project. The vi has a loop for a limited time and vi closes as the loop ends. When I open the exe file by double clicking, the vi opens and runs properly. BUT, if i try to run the exe file using Python script as below, the vi opens and stops at once and loop is not completed.
I have tried multiple python commands to run it, but nothing works. Hope someone knows the solution.
This is the code
import sys
import os
os.system("C:\\Users\\sjaved\\Desktop\\Pwm_MPC5748G_MT\\BSWs\\MCAL\\Pwm_MPC5748G\\targetTest\\NIPXI\\builds\\NI_Opponent\\Host\\Host.exe")
Some older versions of LabVIEW required the "Run when opened" option to be set in your top level VI's Execution preferences in order to auto-run when the app is executed. I tested this with a LabVIEW 2017 exe and python and the VI ran as expected (even without the "Run when opened" property set).
I'm writing a script for Illustrator CS6 in ExtendScript. At the end of my script, I want to spawn a task (a second script, in Ruby) using File.execute(). However, it's not working. And I'm at a loss as how to debug the problem -- how can I figure out why this isn't working?
Here's the end of my ExtendScript file:
// Do a bunch of other work, then:
var rubyFile = new File(scriptFolder + 'BuildHtmlWalkthrough.rb');
alert(rubyFile.exists);
var result = rubyFile.execute();
alert(result);
Both rubyFile.exists and result are always true, indicating that the script launched OK. But the script does not appear to run, at all. I've tried the following diagnostics:
The Ruby script does successfully run from the command line. The script's permissions are -rwxr-xr-x
I added a call to system("touch /blah/blah/blah") as the very first line of the Ruby script. The file does not get touched.
I thought maybe the ExtendScript process was terminating before the Ruby script could run, so I added a long for loop after rubyFile.execute(). Spinning for > 30 seconds did not help.
What can I do to debug, or solve, this problem?
I'm on MacOS X v10.9.1. And for reference, this is the documentation for File.execute():
File.execute (): Boolean
Core JavaScript Classes
Executes or opens
this file using the appropriate application, as if it had been
double-clicked in a file browser. You can use this method to run
scripts, launch applications, and so on. Returns true immediately if
the application launch was successful.
It's probably doing the "opens this file using the appropriate application" instead of executing, and returns true because the file successfully opens (or is already open in its associated app). If I have a python script and do
f= new File("~/Documents/misc_scripts/getpixelrgb.py");
f.execute();
, it opens it in my script editor, even if the file's execute flags are set.
I'm on OSX, btw
In After Effects, there is system.callSystem() to execute command line commands, but I'm afraid that is absent in Illustrator (I'm assuming you're doing this for Illustrator because of the tag). Are you on OSX or Windows? There are ways around this, by making an executable .app (OSX) or .exe (Win) and calling that with execute(). If I were doing this, I'm on OSX and I'd make an AppleScript app that does 'do shell script' to make the ruby system call. On Windows, it's different. One solution you might like if you're on windows: ocra, which is ruby-specific (http://ocra.rubyforge.org/). It may be possible to run a .bat file on Windows that calls the ruby script, but I'm not sure.
[edit!]
Terribly sorry for the extraneous Windows info (for someone else, I guess). Just saw your note about being on OSX. So you might want to use the AppleScript solution.
[edit again]
So, if my ruby script ("test.rb") is:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
print "Hello"
and my AppleScript is:
do shell script "cd /testing_folder/; ruby test.rb"
Then I get "Hello" returned in AppleScript, but ExtendScript will just return true.
A problem that has been plaguing me for nearly a week now.
I am trying to get an install of IIS to take place through the command line in VB. I understand that i need to be setting up an Unattended xml script to call, but here is a fundamental bit that is confusing me:
If i run the command : ' start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer; ' it executes perfectly within CMD.exe.
If i add the command to a batch file and run the batch file, it runs perfectly.
If i call the command using : Dim myProcess As Process = Process.Start("cmd.exe", "/k start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;"), then it fails with an error of:
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Operation failed with 0x8007000B ////
////
An attempt was made to run the program in an incorrect format ////
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
If i call the batch file mentioned earlier, then i get the exact same error.
How can it work perfectly with the two first examples but fail when it is called through VB?
Thanks for any help!
Your VB.NET program is very likely to be running in 32-bit mode and will start the 32-bit version of cmd.exe. The one from c:\windows\syswow64 instead of the one from c:\windows\system32 that you used before. Getting BadImageFormatException starts to become likely.
Project + Properties, Compile tab, set the Target CPU to AnyCPU and untick the "Prefer 32-bit" option. On older versions of VS click the Advanced Compile Options button to get to the setting.
I have a MAC OSX objective C application say first.app ,in which i use NSAppleScript with admin privileges to run a shell script.This script is indented to launch another Objective C application say second.app.
When you use open command Ex: "open second.app" in shell script it works fine .
But if you launch the second.app by calling its binary Ex: "/second.app/Contents/MacOS/second " in shell script ,then the control don't come back to first.app until second.app closes . when we close the second.app then first.app resumes .
What is the difference in launching the application from open command and calling the applications binary directly as mentioned ?
Calling
open Second.app
is the same as double-clicking the app's icon in the Finder. The application is started via LaunchServices, and the open command returns immediately.
Calling
/path/to/Second.app/Contents/MacOS/Second
starts the application directly (without LaunchServices), and returns only when the application has terminated.