applescript
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg108327] applescript
- From: "alexxx.magni at gmail.com" <alexxx.magni at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:12:22 -0500 (EST)
hi everybody, after using Linux machines since forever, I am now using a macbook, and I just discovered what is IMHO the one and only feature where OSX leaves Linux (and Win of course ;-) behind: the universal ability to make apps communicate one with the other via Applescript. (dont flame me: I know I can link Mathematica with C apps and so on... the point is just that Applescript is universal & painless to use...) Anyway: I just installed Mathematica, and found out in the Applescript editor that Mathematica seems indeed scriptable: opening its dictionary reveals "Required suite", "Standard suite" and "Mathematica suite", with names and verbs with which to operate. Unfortunately, I am completely new to Applescript and dont know how to begin. Googling around I discovered MathLink for Applescript (www.unisoftwareplus.com/products/mathlinkosax/), but it seems an old product, and moreover I'd like to communicate with Math without installing anything else. So I just want to ask if any of you has experience on scripting Mathematica from the outside! thanks... alessandro