Applescript Patch: A Beginning

AppleScript in Quartz Composer would be useful for one particular advantage over Javascript: It has its same dictionaries, etc, wherever it is implemented. That means calls to Address Book, Safari, and System Events. I want AppleScript right now so I can bring another application's window to the front, but I know of plenty of other uses.

This is only a decent start, as I can't figure out how to pass a variable number of arguments to the applescript the way I'm doing things

AppleScript Patch Goals

• Implement AppleScript in a patch
• Pass input nodes to our AppleScript code directly

Implementation: In Leopard's Official API, create a plugin with an interface. In your header file, specify two inputs. one a boolean, shouldRun, which will tell our patch when to run, and the other an Index (integer), numArgs, that tells us how many variable inputs we need. These are 'real' inputs, as in a patch that completes my goals, we'd have argument support.

Create one non-input Objective-C 2.0 properties, a NSString called script. Plunk a text box down in Interface Builder, and bind it to PlugIn.script. This is where the user enters his/her applescript. Scripts are entered into the text box, with arguments passed to any value called %@ or %d or whatever, in order.

Here's most of the code for your main block:

if (self.shouldRun) {
    //for errors, we have this!
    NSDictionary *errorContainer = [[NSDictionary alloc] init];


//Creates our final script by taking user entry and substituting %@ or %d for our real argument.
NSString *finalScript = [NSString stringWithFormat: self.script, arg1, arg2];  //note that as I have no idea what I'm doing, we're not gonna have these args.  thats for YOU to figure out how to do
NSAppleScript *appleScript = [[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource:finalScript];

if(![appleScript executeAndReturnError:& errorContainer])
NSLog([errorContainer description]); 


};

So, who can solve the dynamically creating argument inputs problem?