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Article:		Replacing AppleScript with Ruby
Subject:		Accessing the clipboard via rb-appscript
Date:		2007-03-01 16:19:31
From:		bbebop
Matt, great article. I've been playing around with appscript by rewriting an existing applescript that contains the following code: set the clipboard to "some text" Frankly, not sure what app controls the clipboard. Thanks!

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• Accessing the clipboard via rb-appscript
  2007-03-01 17:49:48  Matt Neuburg | [View]
  
  
  Frankly, not sure what app controls the clipboard
  
  See my book! "set the clipboard" is an osax command. The article tells you how to access osax commands. So e.g. osax.set_the_clipboard_to("howdy").
• Accessing the clipboard via rb-appscript
  2007-03-01 23:33:05  bbebop [View]
  
  
  Thanks, Matt. That helped. Now I must have my copy of Frontier: The Definitive Guide around here somewhere. Never could get next to Applescript and miss Frontier. Maybe Ruby will be the charm??
• Accessing the clipboard via rb-appscript
  2007-03-02 16:11:05  Matt Neuburg | [View]
  
  
  Indeed. It was Frontier that taught me that there was a better way to construct and send Apple events. And Ruby does have some features that are pleasingly similar to Frontier's UserTalk, and rb-appscript is also quite reminiscent of the way UserTalk did Apple events.