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MacOS.OSA object

The MacOS.OSA object allows you to invoke other OSA scripting languages, such as AppleScript or Fronter, directly from within JavaScript.

Method/Property	Description
MacOS.OSA(language)	constructor Specify the language you want to use: MacOS.OSA.AppleScript MacOS.OSA.Frontier MacOS.OSA.Generic (if you don't care) or the 4-character code identifying the language (e.g. "ascr" for AppleScript)
MacOS.OSA.compile(source)	compile a script
MacOS.OSA.execute()	execute the script and return the value produced by the script
MacOS.OSA.call(subroutineName, ...)	call a subroutine, and optionally pass parameters and return the value of the subroutine
MacOS.OSA.toSource() MacOS.OSA.toString()	decompile the script
MacOS.OSA.load(path)	load a previously compiled script from a file
MacOS.OSA.store(path)	store a script in a OSA script file (new in 1.0.2)
MacOS.OSA.modified	read-only this property returns the modification count of the script.

In addition to the methods and properties defined above, any properties or handlers present in the loaded or compiled OSA script are available as properties or functions of the MacOS.OSA object. For instance:

Sample

var script = new MacOS.OSA(MacOS.OSA.AppleScript);

script.compile("property abc:\"Hello World\"");
script.abc;

The result of this script fragment is the value of the AppleScript ABC property: "Hello World".