Class: Gasoline::Applescript

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/gasoline/applescript.rb

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.propane_running? ⇒ Boolean

Checks if Propane is currently running

Returns a bool

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/gasoline/applescript.rb', line 20

def self.propane_running?
  running = run {'tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains "Propane"'}
  running == "true"
end

.refresh_propane_if_running ⇒ Object

If Propane is running, this will send it a refresh command

Returns a string



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# File 'lib/gasoline/applescript.rb', line 28

def self.refresh_propane_if_running
  return unless propane_running?

  script = <<SCRIPT
tell application "Propane"
	activate
	tell application "System Events"
		# Refresh current room
		keystroke "r" using command down
	end tell
end tell
SCRIPT

  run { script }
end

.run ⇒ Object

Runs a piece of Applescript,

Gasoline::Applescript.run do
  "set ten_and_ten to 10 + 10"
end
=> "20"

Since Applescript has a nasy bit of littering its return values with ‘n`, already escaping those.



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# File 'lib/gasoline/applescript.rb', line 12

def self.run
  value = `/usr/bin/osascript -e "#{yield.gsub('"', '\"')}"`
  value.gsub("\n", '')
end