hei there!

i'd like to call an apple script via processing - is this possible?

f.e.

tell application "iTunes"
  playpause
end tell

...


thanks! mias

thanks sojamo! it works great!

what i'm working on now should be rather simple, but somehow i can't figure out, where's the problem (i posted this question in the "other libaries" folder - but i don't think it belongs there...)

i'd like to work with the apple sms libary. what i'm trying to do is to recognise a "shock" - therefor i'd i'm trying to compare to pieces of data in an array:

import sms.*;

void setup() {
 size(200,200);
}

void draw() {
 int i=0;
 int[] vals = Unimotion.getSMSArray();
 int[] listener = new int[5];
 while(i<5) {
   listener[i] = vals[0];
   i  = i + 1;
}
 println( listener[0] + " " + listener[1] + " " + listener[2]);
}

but it won't work. is that, because the while structure operates within frameRate?

i'm a little confused - i think it's an total dork-question!

thanks! mias

Based on the previous example, this seems to work (at least in Leopard):
Code:

import com.apple.cocoa.foundation.*;
 
void setup() {
  size(400,400);
}
 
void keyPressed() {
  switch(key) {
    case('p'):firefox("OpenURL \"http://www.processing.org/\"");break;
    case('g'):firefox("OpenURL \"http://www.google.com/\"");break;
  }
}
 
void draw() {}
 
 
void firefox(String theCommand) {
  String script = "tell application \"Firefox\""+"\n" + theCommand + "\n" + "end tell";
  println(script);
  executeScript(script);
}
 
   
void executeScript(String script) {
  NSAppleScript myScript = new NSAppleScript(script);
  NSMutableDictionary errors = new NSMutableDictionary();
  myScript.execute(errors);  
}
 

Not sure what went wrong with your version...

Have a look at this you can add Speech Recognition to your processing apps using applescript, it is all working but Im having problems with the return result, syntax problem. Can anyone give me a hand? here is the processing code:

---PROCESSING CODE----


import com.apple.cocoa.foundation.*;

void setup() {
 size(400,400);
}

void keyPressed() {
 switch(key) {
   case('p'):iTunes("play");break;
   case(' '):iTunes("pause");break;
   case('n'):iTunes("next track");break;
   case('s'):speech();break;
 }
}

void draw() {}


void iTunes(String theCommand) {
 String script = "tell application \"iTunes\""+"\n" + theCommand + "\n" + "end tell";
 executeScript(script);
}

 
void executeScript(String script) {
 NSAppleScript myScript = new NSAppleScript(script);
 NSMutableDictionary errors = new NSMutableDictionary();
 NSAppleEventDescriptor result = myScript.execute(errors);  
 
 println(NSAppleEventDescriptor.stringValue(result));
}

void speech() {
 
 String script = "tell application \"SpeechRecognitionServer\"\n set result to (listen continuously for {\"Call me\", \"Call anyone except me\"} with prompt {\"Who would you like to call?\"} with identifier \"Calling\" with section title \"Phone\")\nreturn result\nend tell";
 executeScript(script);
}


----APPLESCRIPT CODE -----
Here is the applescript you can drop into applescript editor to get what is should return:

tell application "SpeechRecognitionServer"

set result to (listen continuously for {"Call me", "Call anyone except me"} with prompt {"Who would you like to call?"} with identifier "Calling" with section title "Phone")

return result
end tell


footnote: speech recognition example taken from mac os X hints entry:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=27918