Re: Info MCL Digest Digest V2 #85

[bonura@taurus.apple.com (Tom Bonura)]

>Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 03:34:46 GMT
>From: kardank@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Kardan Kaveh)
>Subject: AppleScript and MCL
>
>Is there any plan to make MCL support AppleScript?
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>--
>Kaveh Kardan
>kardank@ERE.UMontreal.CA
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Sort of depends on what you mean by `support'.  If you are interested in
doing complex things, like defining an aete resource for your MCL
application's terminology, and using it in the manner prescribed by the
applescript api, I think you may be stuck.

But take heart - at the very simpliest level MCL is (sort of) scriptable.
Load the MCL file ccl:examples;eval-server.lisp.  THen, in the applescript
editor create a new script, e.g.:

set s to "(format t " & (ASCII character 34) & "Hello MCL!" & (ASCII
character 34) & ")"

Tell application "MCL" to do script s


When you run the script from the script editor, "Hello MCL!" will be
printed to the listener.  Any result is returned to the client who sent the
script as a string in the reply.

The bit about ASCII... is applescript's way of embedding a string quote in
a string.

On another note, if you are interested in writing, compiling and executing
scripts from within MCL, let me know.  I've some code which might help you
out.



         Tom
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              Tom Bonura
Apple Computer, Inc.   Advanced Technology Group,
        Interactive Media Lab
    Intelligent Systems Program
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