Programatically execute action group

Hi

Anyone know how I can programatically execute a named action group from within my plugin?

-Alistair

[jay (support)]

We haven't completed actions and action groups in the IOM yet, but we will by GM. Most likely it will be something like this:

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indigo.actionGroup.execute(actionGroupRef)

It won't be in the beta update that we'll release this week - not sure when it'll get in exactly.

OK. For now, I can make a web services call back out to IWS - and I'll update that section of code later

[jay (support)]

You can also use the subprocess python module to execute an AppleScript:

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import subprocess
subprocess.call(["osascript","-e", 'tell application "IndigoServer" to execute group "Action Group Name"'])

That should work temporarily...

Great - thanks for the tip!
The downside, is that I'm getting the DB reference of my action group from Indigo, and I can't find a way to turn it back into a name. Any workarounds?

[jay (support)]

Fortunately if you're getting a real actionGroup object, then just reference it's name (that much is implemented in the IOM):

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myGroup = indigo.actionGroups[1234]
myScript = u'tell application "IndigoServer" to execute group "' + myGroup.name + u'"'
subprocess.call(["osascript","-e", myScript])


So no workaround needed.

[matt (support)]

Note beta 9 (not yet available) will have a new function to execute Action Groups:

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indigo.actionGroup.execute(actionGroupRef)

I'm finally taking advantage of this function - it seems to use name rather than reference.
I can't find it in the docs - is there a way to execute group by reference, rather than name?

Ah, the wonders of "grep"

I discovered that the call needs an "int" to work.... All solved!