Re: applescript
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- Subject: [mg108500] Re: applescript
- From: Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:46:19 -0500 (EST)
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On Mar 18, 4:34 am, "alexxx.ma... at gmail.com" <alexxx.ma... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> it's a pity that nobody seemed interested, but for the sake of future
> users googling about this problem, here's what I found:
>
> 1) by using this simple script (thanks to Achilleas Lazarides)
>
> tell application "Mathematrica"
> question="FactorInteger[987654321]"
> set x to do script question
> display dialog x
> end tell
>
> I get the answer {{3,2},{17,2},{379721,1}}
>
> 2) by this instead:
>
> tell application "Mathematica"
> set s to "Graphics3D[Table[{RGBColor[RandomReal[1, 3]],
> Sphere[RandomReal[3, 3], RandomReal[{0.2, 0.4}]]}, {i, 5}], Boxed ->
> False]"
> set es to "Export[\"a.pdf\"," & s & "]"
> do script es
> end tell
>
> I get a perfect pdf file with the output of any graphic command
>
> alessandro
>
> On 14 Mar, 11:12, "alexxx.ma... at gmail.com" <alexxx.ma... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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
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