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knightlie

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Feb 18, 2008
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I'm idly wondering about getting data in and out of Numbers from within another application. Under Windows I'd use COM/ActiveX/Whatever-they-call-it-this-week to open a spreadsheet and get or put the data.

What method could I use for OSX, assuming there is one? Would AppleScript be able to do it?
 

knightlie

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Feb 18, 2008
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Do you know how to discover an app's applescript dictionary?

Yes, and as far as I can tell AppleScript looks to be the only realistic way of doing it. I doubt I'll be working on it yet, but I wanted have a rough idea of what to do so I can plan accordingly.

I assume there's a way to execute AppleScript from within an application?
 
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