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AppleScript advice needed.

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  • Subject: [mg14806] AppleScript advice needed.
  • From: sidles at u.washington.edu (John Sidles)
  • Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:29:07 -0500
  • Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Dear Mathematica users

Does anyone know how to set up Mathematica  MathLinks on the Macintosh
so that:

(1) the input to MathKernel is supplied via 
    AppleScript, e.g.

        tell application "MathKernel"
            DoScript "2+2"
            DoScript "Plot[Sin[x],{x,0,Pi}];"
            DoScript "<< myAnalysisNotebook.m;"
        end tell

(2) the resulting MathKernel output is directed 
    to the Front End. 

Basically, I want to use Mathematica as a sophisticated tool for
displaying data generated by other applications,  with AppleScript
orchestrating the sequence in which  the various applications run. 

Part (1) works fine, however the output appears in the text window of
the MathKernel (which cannot do graphics).

Achieving Part (2) is a mystery!  Can anyone help?

As a start, I entered the MathKernel command

  link = LaunchLink["Mathematica 3.0"]

which indeed launched the front end, but with no window open, and with
no response to menu commands. Thus, I had to force-quit the front end. 
After which, my digital timestamp was screwed up -- yet again.

With the support desk not open till Monday, I've lost  another two days
of work to the dreaded timestamp snafu!

Now I'm scared to experiment further without expert  advice.  Are there
any experts out there who have been down this path?

Sincerely
John Sidles

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