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Anonymous
April 13, 2011
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Get a return value from app.DoScript() ?

  • April 13, 2011
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Is there a way to get a value back?

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Correct answer Sunil Yadav

As per my understanding for your need, you can not directly return any value, But still you can full fill your need by declaring a variable before calling another script using app.doScript and pass this variable and in another file store result in that variable and when execution of script finishes you can get that result through that variable.

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Sunil

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Sunil Yadav
Sunil YadavCorrect answer
Legend
July 24, 2018

As per my understanding for your need, you can not directly return any value, But still you can full fill your need by declaring a variable before calling another script using app.doScript and pass this variable and in another file store result in that variable and when execution of script finishes you can get that result through that variable.

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Sunil

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    Hauke30377645zwrc
    Participating Frequently
    June 27, 2023

    Unfortunately, passing of variables only works for doScript calls outside any function. But at least on Mac platform, text returned from an AppleScript is forwarded by doScript, as suggested by the previous answers.

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    D¡rk Becker
    Inspiring
    April 13, 2011

    This works for me:

    alert(app.doScript("1"));

    In other words - the doScript result is the last evaluated expression, or the return value if that is a function invokation.
    Dirk

    Muppet_Mark-QAl63s
    Muppet_Mark-QAl63s
    Inspiring
    April 13, 2011

    Yep same here…

    var appScr = 'return \"This String…\"';

alert(app.doScript(appScr, ScriptLanguage.APPLESCRIPT_LANGUAGE));

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