Replace Apple Script in Windows

[FM]

HI,

I don't have any specific need yet at least for now, but I wonder is there any tool that I can use to substitute the Apple Script function in Windows.

Because Apple Script won't work in Windows

Thanks

[kenneth2k1]

Hi:

Not that I know of. In FM for windows, applescript commands are ignored.

AppleScript syntax is totally foreign to anything on Windows. The only things remotely close to applescript on FM for Windows are "Send Message" and "Send DDE Event"

Ken

[-Queue-]

Experiment with Send Message[] and Send DDE[] script steps. You can call the OS, batch files or WinBatch files, and other programs to perform basically anything possible on Windows. And your results can be redirected to text files that FileMaker imports and acts on accordingly. There seems to be very little documentation on these steps, but they can be the most powerful when on a Windows machine.

[SteveB]

WinBatch is more powerful than Applescript and runs on all the Windows platforms. Its very easy to use. You can compile a script into an exe and freely distribute the results without having to put WB on the user's machine.

Steve

[SuperMacGuy]

Sounds like a good time to switch some users to Macs. :-)

Chris

[Fitch]

I'm mostly a Mac man, but Windows batch files are pretty cool. For example, FTP is built in (I know, OS X has FTP, but OS 9 was not built in). Google "batch files," you'll find tons of links. I'm sure WinBatch is fine, but you don't need anything special to create a batch file, Notepad or Wordpad does the job.

FileMaker Advisor magazine also has an article on this in the current issue, showing how to create the batch file right from FileMaker on the fly, then run it and delete it. Slick.

[jonesy17]

Fitch said:

(I know, OS X has FTP

Yeah, but try and upload or delete with it!

[BobWeaver]

On OS8/9 you can use Fetch. It's scriptable. It might run on OSX, but I've never tried it.

[jfmcel]

or you can use the URL Access Scripting -- a OS 9 and OS X applescript Scriptin Addition. Allows FTP uploads and downloads without using a 3rd part application.