[MlMt] Ask for user input in a bundle

[Alexander Kucera]

Thanks. The AppleScript line works for my purposes. When I have all the 
details ironed out, I'll post the bundle if you like.

Alexander Kucera
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On 21 Sep 2014, at 12:26, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 21 Sep 2014, at 9:56, Alexander Kucera wrote:
>
>> is it possible to query the user for input when running a bundle?
>
> Yes, you could, for example, use AppleScript for this. The hardest 
> part is finding [the 
> documentation](https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/reference/ASLR_cmds.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40000983-CH216-SW12).
>
> Here is a useful one-liner:
>
> 	osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to return text returned of 
> (display dialog "Give me some text" default answer "")'
>
>> I am working on a bundle to send stuff to Studiometry and it allows 
>> linking to a project ID, which is usually not present in the email, 
>> so I thought I'd just input it before exporting to Studiometry (where 
>> it is much more tedious to change the linking afterwards).
>>
>> The alternative would be to use tagging for that I guess and tag my 
>> emails beforehand with the project ID.
>
> That could work as well, but you might end up with a lot of tags.
>
>> What would be the correct syntax to pass my tagging info over to a 
>> bundle?
>
> That's not straightforward. I think one would have to pass `#flags` 
> (space-separated list) to the script and then search for the IMAP 
> keyword of the tag.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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