Director & Lingo command/script

[NevBull]

hi again

I used a Director Xtra called Zscript from Zeus Productions http://www.zeusprod.com/products/zscript.html - this handles all of the applescript commands. There are examples of scripting on the Zeus website.

You just name the Mac you want to control (in this case plasa) and use the Director scripting to send Applescript commands to the application on that mac i.e.

tell application "Virtuoso" of machine "eppc://plasa.local
PEvent "recall macro 1"
End Tell

So you could get one of your mac to trigger the others by sending an applescript command - that is if the Director runtime can be controlled by Applescript.

Clear as mud?

Nev.

[samsc]

that might work for the guy asking the original question?

i havent looked at this stuff since probably 1995. which is a long time ago.

[samsc]

So in this case we could send director an applescript.

tell application "Director" of machine "eppc://whatever.local"
do lingo
blah blah blah
end tell

or something similar

You also have to turn on "Remote Apple Events" in the Sharing system preference

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to run a remote application like address book - use something like:


tell application "Finder" of machine "eppc://macintoshpb.local"
open application file "Address Book.app" of folder "Applications" of startup disk
end tell