----->>> On 6-Apr-2000, Jan Hendrikx wrote: > Has anybody succeeded in scripting Flowjo using Applescript? > It would be great if that were possible!! -------------- I know I haven't. As Adrian noted, FlowJo does support some minimal level of AppleScript, but doesn't have the object model implementation which is what you'd need to do anything meaningful. I did this in an earlier application (FlexiTrace) and it turned into a huge amount of work to enable obtuse functionality to a small number of users. My personal experience with AppleScripts is that they're really brittle. If you move something, or want to something different from the script writers intention, the script gets annoyingly confused and its much easier to start over than to fix it. Publish and Subscribe is an easier addition feature we've considered, but there just aren't many people who'd take advantage of this if it were included. (Let me know if you think otherwise.) If properly constructed, a workspace in FlowJo is the script of all analyses and reports in that experiment. Dropping your new data folder onto the workspace should perform all the analyses that one might automate with AppleScript. We have considered automating it further, but the logical next step is auto-printing. In deference to trees, we chose to stop short of automating the output without making you look at the data. Someday soon, FlowJo will store its workspace in an XML syntax, which means that we can utililze generic scripting tools, or you can even hack the files yourself. I think this is a better approach than addiing AppleScript. Adam ---------------------------------- Adam Treister Tree Star, Inc. ph: 650-508-9349 fax: 650-508-9186 www.treestar.com ----------------------------------
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