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Using Omni Automation with JXA and AppleScript
- FoldersSynchronizer can run an AppleScript before and after executing each session. This option could be useful, for instance, to close all the applications before the sync/backup or to mount some volume that FS cannot mount via the Auto-mount Volumes option. FS can test your AS code and notify you the errors and their location in the text, however the application AppleScript Editor located.
- The AppleScript Language Guide—still the primary official documentation, and an important source of information, even though it often obfuscates more than it explains and is valid only to Version 1.3.7.
- Introduction; Installation and Setup. Installation; Initial Setup; Importing your library from GarageSale 6; Getting Started. Main Window; Accounts Window; Groups and Smart Groups.
In macOS, Omni Automation scripts can be executed from within JavaScript for Automation (JXA) and AppleScript scripts and applets. Use the macOS Script Editor application to create and edit scripts in those languages.
In this post, I share some AppleScripts I use to implement additional features in the Things to-do app: OmniFocus-style deferred tasks, project templates that live in the Bear notes app, and more! AppleScript Basics. By Jerry Stratton. Copyright © 2011. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this.
NOTE: From within the Script Editor application in macOS, both AppleScript and JXA scripts can be saved as applets and script files, and can be run from the macOS system-wide Script Menu, and by third-party utilities like Hazel and FastScripts.
Encode Omni Automation Scripts
To encode your Omni Automation scripts into Omni Automation URLs, paste your script into the following field and TAP|CLICK one of the “Encode” buttons:
Once you have converted your Omni Automation script into an Omni Automation URL, the encoded URL code can be copied and inserted into either the JXA or AppleScript templates (provided below), automatically opened in the Script Editor application.
JavaScript for Automation (JXA)
JavaScript for Automation (JXA) is an OSA (Open Scripting Architecture) implementation of JavaScript Core in macOS. Introduced in OS X Yosemite, JXA is a peer of the AppleScript language and as such has access to all macOS scriptable apps, frameworks, and native UNIX utilities. Here are links to the JXA Release Notes and a 23-minute training video.
Since both Omni Automation and JXA are based upon JavaScript Core, you can easily create JXA scripts that run Omni Automation scripts. This accomplished using either of two techniques:
- Running an Omni Automation URL from a JXA script.
- Creating an Omni Automation URL from an embedded Omni Automation script, and then running the URL.
Here is an example of running an Omni Automation URL from within JXA:
| Running Omni Automation URL in JXA | ||
| 01 | app = Application.currentApplication() | |
| 02 | app.includeStandardAdditions = true | |
| 03 | varOmniAutomationURL = 'replace-with-Omni-Automation-URL' | |
| 04 | app.openLocation(OmniAutomationURL) | |
And a template for encoding and running an Omni Automation script from within JXA. Note that the Omni Automation code to run is placed in a function (lines 10-17):
| Encode and Run Omni Automation in JXA | ||
| 01 | // JXA execution code | |
| 02 | app = Application.currentApplication() | |
| 03 | app.includeStandardAdditions = true | |
| 04 | varscriptAsString = OmniAutomationScript.toString() + 'n' + 'OmniAutomationScript()' | |
| 05 | varOmniAutomationURL = encodeForOmniAutomation('OmniGraffle', scriptAsString) | |
| 06 | app.openLocation(OmniAutomationURL) | |
| 07 | ||
| 08 | // Omni Automation script written as a function | |
| 09 | functionOmniAutomationScript(){ | |
| 10 | varaRect = newRect(100,100,200,200) | |
| 11 | varaFillColor = Color.RGB(0, 0, 1, 1) | |
| 12 | varaStrokeColor = Color.red | |
| 13 | cnvs = document.windows[0].selection.canvas | |
| 14 | varaShape = cnvs.addShape('Circle',aRect) | |
| 15 | aShape.strokeThickness = 12 | |
| 16 | aShape.fillColor = aFillColor | |
| 17 | aShape.strokeColor = aStrokeColor | |
| 18 | } | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | // JavaScript encoding routine | |
| 21 | functionencodeForOmniAutomation(OmniAppName, scriptCode){ | |
| 22 | appName = OmniAppName.toLowerCase() | |
| 23 | urlOpening = appName + '://localhost/omnijs-run?script=' | |
| 24 | varencodedScript = encodeURIComponent(scriptCode) | |
| 25 | encodedScript = encodedScript.split('').join('%27') | |
| 26 | encodedScript = encodedScript.split('(').join('%28') | |
| 27 | encodedScript = encodedScript.split(')').join('%29') | |
| 28 | encodedScript = encodedScript.split('!').join('%21') | |
| 29 | encodedScript = encodedScript.split('~').join('%7E') | |
| 30 | encodedScript = encodedScript.split('.').join('%2E') | |
| 31 | returnurlOpening + encodedScript | |
| 32 | } | |
AppleScript
The Omni suite of apps all support AppleScript and have AppleScript dictionaries. In addition, each application supports the evaluate javascript command for executing Omni Automation scripts from within AppleScript scripts.
| Using the Evaluate JavaScript Command | ||
| 01 | tell application 'OmniPlan' | |
| 02 | evaluate javascript 'new Alert('My Title', 'My message.').show()' | |
| 03 | end tell | |
Omni Automation URLs can be executed from within AppleScript scripts by executing them using the open location scripting addition:
| Run Omni Automation URL in AppleScript | ||
| 01 | open location'replace-with-Omni-Automation-URL' | |
BBEdit
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Add this AppleScript script to the BBEdit script menu, and you can execute Omni Automation script snippets selected in the frontmost BBEdit document. NOTE: Omni Automation errors that occur during script execution will be logged to the Omni application’s console window.
From Wikipedia's entry on AppleScript:
Whereas Apple events are a way to send messages into applications, AppleScript is a particular language designed to send Apple events. In keeping with the objective of ease-of-use for beginners, the AppleScript language is designed on the natural language metaphor, just as the graphical user interface is designed on the desktop metaphor.
If you wanted to write an AppleScript to open my app Acorn, it would look like this:
tell application 'Acorn' to open
If you then wanted to tell Acorn to quit, it would look like this:
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tell application 'Acorn' to quit
If you invoke Siri and say 'tell application Acorn to open' then Acorn will open up which is pretty awesome. If you use the latter command, Siri will respond:
To close an app, press Command - Q on your keyboard. If that doesn't work, open the menu and chose Force Quit.
The very first AppleScript command I baked into Acorn goes as follows:
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tell application 'Acorn' to taunt
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The command is still there today, and if I ask the same to Siri literally nothing happens. Siri just goes away and pretends I didn't ask it anything. But should it?
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It seems to me that as an interface to Siri commands, something along the lines of AppleScript would be a pretty good fit. What if developers could mark commands in our AppleScript interfaces to be exposed to Siri?
I realize Apple is doing its best to make sure AppleScript just fades away, but this seems to be a pretty big missed opportunity on their part.