Question

How do you call an AppleScript process from an AIR native process?

Background:
I’ve created a script.scpt file and placed it in the root src directory of project.

I’m getting this error with what I have:

Error: Error #3219: The NativeProcess could not be started. 'launch path not accessible'

What I have:

var nativeProcessStartupInfo:NativeProcessStartupInfo = new NativeProcessStartupInfo();
var file:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("MyScript.scpt");
var processArgs:Vector.<String>;

nativeProcessStartupInfo.executable = file;
nativeProcessStartupInfo.workingDirectory = File.applicationDirectory;

processArgs = new Vector.<String>();
processArgs[0] = "foo";

nativeProcessStartupInfo.arguments = processArgs;

process = new NativeProcess();
process.start(nativeProcessStartupInfo);

Solved
For it to work I needed the absolute path to “osascript” which is the command that runs scripts. In this case that command can be found in (along with a ton of other goodies)
Macintosh HardDrive > usr > bin > osascript

Note: The “usr” directory is hidden. The path is “/usr/bin/osascript”

var file:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("/usr/bin/osascript");

After that I passed the script file name as an argument. It also needs the working directory to be set to the directory of the script otherwise you get:

  ERROR - osascript: script.scpt: No such file or directory

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