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Feature request #303: REQUEST: Ability to run non-compiled, non-application AppleScripts as "Track Change Items"

Kind feature request
Product Synergy Advance
When Created , updated
Status open
Reporter Greg Hurrell
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Description

As requested in this forum thread:

https://wincent.dev/a/support/forums/showflat.php?Number=830

Here's what needs to be done (as posted to forum):

"To make these work with Synergy (and even non-compiled ones) I'd have to make changes to the code which treated files with a .scpt extension differently. In those cases, instead of doing the equivalent of a double-click (which would most likely open them in Script Editor which isn't what you want), I could make Synergy read the textual contents of the file, try to compile the text into an AppleScript and then execute it."

Comments

  1. Greg Hurrell

    Changing assignment to reflect my new email address.

    https://wincent.dev/a/news/archives/2006/05/change_of_email.php

  2. Greg Hurrell

    See also:

    https://wincent.dev/a/support/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1143

  3. sjmills

    I'd really like to see this one get implemented. For the past few years I've been using launchd to run an AppleScript every 2 minutes, which checks to see if iTunes is now playing a different song than the last time it checked, and if so, write a file. I wanted to use the Track Change Items, but find it extremely annoying to have an app launch and quit (thereby changing the foreground app) every time the song changes (or I change the song). And you shouldn't have to try to load the text or anything like that - just use OSADoScriptFile, or use the individual steps if needed, and don't forget to save the script back to the file (if it was a compiled script) so changed properties get saved.

  4. Greg Hurrell

    I agree that the potential benefits of this feature outweigh the costs/risks. My major concern was with the security of running arbitrary items in a folder, but I think it can be done in a reasonably safe fashion if care is taken.

    By the way, that link to the forum post is broken because it points to the old forums. I think that it's a reference to either this or this thread. Funnily enough, the first of those threads was started by you!

  5. anonymous

    Send event to shell if .scpt e.g. osascript <path to script> ?

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