Re: [LCtalk] Scripting The Lanbox

[Fokko van Duin]

Hello Pat,

At 10:43 -0500 10-12-2005, patman209@aol.com wrote:
> Okay, I just can't seem to do it. Whenever I tell the applescript to 
> run, the cmd light flashes for about 30 seconds and nothing happens. 
> I think I need a specific example of how exactly to pass commands to 
> the lanbox through the applescript.

OK, here is an example to "Go" to 52.1, but these examples are 
included in the file:

property device : "USA49W4b21P1.1" -- alternative e.g. "192.168.1.77 777"
property layer : 1 -- layer A = 1
set cuelist to 52
set cuestep to 1
try
	set res to do shell script "perl 
~/Desktop/LanBoxScripts/cmdwrite.pl " & device & " '*56%2%4%2#' " & 
layer & " " & cuelist & " " & cuestep
	if res contains "enied" then
		error "Bad password"
	else if res contains "?" then
		error "Command failed"
	end if
	set the result to "Go " & cuelist & "." & cuestep
on error x
	beep
	display dialog "Error: " & x buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end try


But you where right, it was NOT working on a serial port. We have 
corrected that, and uploaded a new script including examples in zip 
and sit format at:
<http://www.lanbox.com/downloads/downloads.html#other>

It should work now :-)


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