I'd like to create variables that contain the values for sunrise and sunset so that I can have them available for quick reference from within Indigo Touch. I tried creating an Applescript that would run once a day, but I don't have much experience with Applescript and didn't get very far. If anyone can suggest a better approach, I'm open to it. In the meantime, here's my attempt at Applescript.

tell application "Indigo 4"
set theSunrise to calculate sunrise for (current date)
set theSunset to calculate sunset for (current date)
end tell

When I try to compile, AppleScript Editor returns "Expected end of line but found identifier" and highlights "sunrise" in the second line. Any suggestions?


Thanks in advance,
Paul

For AppleScript's purposes, the application name is IndigoServer. So, try...
tell application "IndigoServer"
...

PaulV wrote:I'd like to create variables that contain the values for sunrise and sunset so that I can have them available for quick reference from within Indigo Touch. I tried creating an Applescript that would run once a day, but I don't have much experience with Applescript and didn't get very far. If anyone can suggest a better approach, I'm open to it. In the meantime, here's my attempt at Applescript.

tell application "Indigo 4"
set theSunrise to calculate sunrise for (current date)
set theSunset to calculate sunset for (current date)
end tell

When I try to compile, AppleScript Editor returns "Expected end of line but found identifier" and highlights "sunrise" in the second line. Any suggestions?


Thanks in advance,
Paul

2 issues:

1) The tell should go to "IndigoServer", not "Indigo 4" - Indigo 4 is the client application.
2) Your script will set AppleScript variables to the relevant times, but it won't set Indigo variables. Assuming that you've already created "theSunrise" and "theSunset" in Indigo's variable window, this is probably what you need:

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tell application "IndigoServer"
   set value of variable "theSunrise" to ((calculate sunrise) as string)
   set value of variable "theSunset" to ((calculate sunset) as string)
end tell

Thanks berkinet and jay for your input.

Jay, your script did the trick. However, the value is too long to display in Indigo Touch.

Value: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:57:27 AM
Display Value: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:57:2...

The displayed value in this case is still OK, but it's only a few characters away from no longer being useful, so I altered your script to the following

tell application "IndigoServer"
    set value of variable "theSunrise" to ((time string of (calculate sunrise)) as string)
    set value of variable "theSunset" to ((time string of (calculate sunset)) as string)
end tell

so now it displays just the time, which is just what I'm looking for. Thanks again for your help.


Paul