This Sugar is a simple proof of concept that provides a way to execute AppleScripts from FileActions and TextActions in Espresso. For FileActions, a list of all the selected file paths is passed to the AppleScript. TextActions similarly receive the selected text.

Please note that executing AppleScripts will currently block Espresso from running for the duration that the script runs. As a result, this is only particularly useful for small scripts that are very quick to execute.

You can download a compiled version of Scriptomatic.sugar here:

https://github.com/downloads/onecrayon/Scriptomatic-sugar/Scriptomatic.sugar.zip

Alternatively, you can clone this GitHub repo, open the XCode project, and compile it yourself. If you have your Espresso application stored anywhere other than the root Applications directory, you will need to first modify the ESPRESSO_PATH build setting for the Scriptomatic target.

On its own Scriptomatic.sugar does nothing. To use it, you will need to create your own custom Sugar containing the AppleScripts you wish access to along with XML definitions for their associated text or file actions in Espresso.

See the ExampleScripts.sugar included in this project for the bare minimum files you need to define your script sugar, and you can find documentation about the action XML here:

http://wiki.macrabbit.com/index/ActionXML/

Essentially, you will need an Info.plist file (to define your Sugar's identifier and version), a folder with your AppleScripts in it, and any FileAction or TextAction definitions that you need.

For AppleScripts run as FileActions you can access the URL of the project itself using the environment variable EDITOR_PROJECT_PATH using a snippet like this:

on run argv
    set projectPath to system attribute "EDITOR_PROJECT_PATH"
    -- Do your actual AppleScript actions here
end run

See the ExampleScripts.sugar for a working example. The following variables are currently available:

• EDITOR_PROJECT_PATH: the path to your project root folder
• EDITOR_SUGAR_PATH: the path to your custom sugar

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