Is there a way to execute a command line executable and get the return?
do you mean like this.
tell application "Finder"
set foo to selection as alias
end tell
set Command to do shell script "/Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo " & quoted form of POSIX path of foo
Command -- the info returned is held in this variable
The command line is /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo foo
/Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo being the path to the exacutable
Do shell script is the Applescript wrapper for the shell script
In this example Applescript set variable to … is like in unix command=/Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo
peejavery, like mark said, the do shell script command can be used in a Studio app. (It’s in the Standard Additions dictionary.)
Well, I can’t get it exactly as you say. Let me explain myself.
I want to get the return from AMSTracker every 1/4 second. Basically, I want to make an application that will detect the sudden motion sensor and send keystrokes according to movement.
Anyone know how to do this?
I and not upto speed in xcode.
But in a applescript saved as an application
Property Last_Command : ""
on idle
set Command to do shell script "./amstracker "
if Command is equal to Last_Command then
return 0.4
else
set Last_Command to Command
tell application "System Events"
beep
do shell script "echo " & Last_Command & " >> ~/documents/ams.log"
end tell
return 0.4
end if
end idle
Man is that sucker sensitive.
looking at the log file " ~/documents/ams.log" it would be best to only use the first orientation number:
example:
0 -3 56
the 0 number is the least likely to change on small vibrations.
Like this, seems to work but you can tweak it to be a sensitive as you want or use some of the other numbers.
property baseline : "0"
property Last_ams_check : ""
property CommandzLast : ""
on idle
set Commandz to do shell script "/Users/UserName/Documents/AMSTracker"
set ams_check to word 1 of paragraph 2 of Commandz
if ams_check is equal to Last_ams_check then
return 0.4
else
if ams_check is greater than baseline + 2 then
tell application "System Events"
beep
end tell
do shell script " echo " & "now _ " & paragraph 2 of Commandz & " before _" & CommandzLast & " >> ~/documents/ams.log"
set Last_ams_check to ams_check
set CommandzLast to paragraph 2 of Commandz
return 0.4
end if
return 0.4
end if
--get Command
end idle
Perfect. Thank you very much.
One problem. If the first number is a negative, it returns the absolute value for that integer.
on the first number tilt to left seems to be in the negative. i.e -2
But as a test to see what i was actually getting in the script I ran
set Commandz to do shell script "/Users/UserNamee/Documents/AMSTracker"
set ams_check to word 1 of paragraph 2 of Commandz
on left tilt numbers returned come up as positive. the same on right tilt thats why I can use the base number.
Basically a tilt is a tilt
No. What I am saying is that if you move to -X it will always show it as positive X. Move the notebook left and it will show right movement because it cuts the “-” off of the variable by using the words function.
I think we are saying the same thing.
It all depends on what you want, if you want to show left tilt as a left tilt or a right tilt as a right tilt then just change the
way it picks out the numbers,
example:
set Commandz to do shell script "/Users/UserName/Documents/AMSTracker"
set ams_check to characters 3 thru 4 of paragraph 2 of Commandz as string
if character 3 of paragraph 2 of Commandz is " " then
set ams_check to character 4 of paragraph 2 of Commandz as string
end if
set ams_check to ams_check as integer
Sorry but I have parsed it in so many ways. For some reason, once, you move the notebook around, it starts seeing everything as positive. I think it moves the characters around so that the negative symbol is no in character position #3.
EDIT: I solved it
repeat 50 times
set theReturn to do shell script "Users/PaulAvery/Library/AMSTracker/AMSTracker"
set theCoord to characters 1 through 5 of paragraph 2 of theReturn
set theCoord to theCoord as string
set xcoord to first word of paragraph 2 of theReturn as integer
if theCoord contains "-" then set xcoord to -xcoord as integer
if xcoord < -20 then display alert "Left" & (xcoord as string)
if xcoord > 17 then display alert "Right" & (xcoord as string)
delay 0.1
end repeat