Hi,

I have been trying to get either xmlrpc or soap to work from an applescript. It has not worked. I get an appleevent time out when I try to save the script. I have also add a tell finder command to the start of the script and that does not seam to help.

set address to "new york city, new york"

tell application "http://rpc.geocoder.us/service/xmlrpc"

set response to call xmlrpc {method name:"geocode", parameters:{address}}

end tell

I think your address is not very good. This works:

set address to "1728 Meade Ave, San Diego, CA"

tell application "http://rpc.geocoder.us/service/xmlrpc"

set response to call xmlrpc {method name:"geocode", parameters:{address}}

end tell

-- You can also pull out the long and lat of the result (which is returned as a record within a list):

long of item 1 of response

lat of item 1 of response

[P.S. I'm on 10.4.11, so I don't know if you're having a Leopard problem.]

Fenton,

Thanks for the quick response. I tried the code you have attached an get the same result.

When I entering it into the "preform applescript" options screen as native code. I hit ok and the spinning wheel comes up and after a minute I get "AppleEvent timed out" dialog box popping up.

I guessing this is a leopard thing, but I appreciate the try.

I don not know if this helps anyone. I have taken the code and run it in Apple's Script Editor and it works fine on my Leopard machine. Unfortunately, I am new to Mac and FMP so this process is slow for me.

Yeah, you're right. I can't get it to work within FileMaker either. You could run it as an external AppleScript applet. But that's a little awkward. Here is another method, which uses AppleScript and command line. It gets the latitude and longitude, if that's what you're after.

Geocode.fp7.zip

Fenton,

Thanks a bunch! : You have a definitely saved me allot of time. Being new, I would not have found that work around very easily.

I'm still a little surprised FMP did not support this type of call, but there probably is a good reason somewhere.

kmcb