Applescript in shell

muhammednoufal · 28th April 2008, 19:02

I tried shell to execute applescript.

osascript -e 'display dialog "hi"'

it gives message "No user interaction allowed"

and also for osascript -e 'choose file'

Wats wrong with my code?

With Thankzz
Muhammed

Magnus · 28th April 2008, 21:19

Hey Muhammed, good to see you here. Unfortunatey Applescript is not something I'm very good at, but I hope someone else can help. I think it'd be great to get more AS stuff on the site.

hanzo · 29th May 2008, 18:40

Sorry I missed this one, haven't been around lately.

This is a pretty easy one:

osascript doesn't have a GUI to interact with, so you need to tell something with a GUI to display the dialog.

In this case, Finder would be the way to go.

Here is what you want:

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to display dialog "hi"'

Magnus · 30th May 2008, 07:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by hanzo

Sorry I missed this one, haven't been around lately.

Hey freezerpants, welcome back, hope everything's been okay

hanzo · 30th May 2008, 13:24

Everything is fine, just suffering from time/attention management issues

Magnus · 31st May 2008, 06:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by hanzo

Everything is fine, just suffering from time/attention management issues

I understand, that happens to all of us.

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28th April 2008, 21:19	#2 (permalink)
Magnus Administrator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Dubai Posts: 8,397	Hey Muhammed, good to see you here. Unfortunatey Applescript is not something I'm very good at, but I hope someone else can help. I think it'd be great to get more AS stuff on the site.

29th May 2008, 18:40	#3 (permalink)
hanzo Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 178	Sorry I missed this one, haven't been around lately. This is a pretty easy one: osascript doesn't have a GUI to interact with, so you need to tell something with a GUI to display the dialog. In this case, Finder would be the way to go. Here is what you want: osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to display dialog "hi"'

30th May 2008, 13:24	#5 (permalink)
hanzo Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 178	Everything is fine, just suffering from time/attention management issues