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Getting value from external applescript

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From: Konstantin_Klein
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:11
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hi everyone,
this is my first post so please forgive me any mistakes about using this forum.
I've written a small jsx-script for ID CS2 and tried to contact other applications by embedding a external applescript. Looks like that:

//contact
//ID-CS2 script

//run the external script
myScript = app.doScript(File("/users/calvin/desktop/trackplay.scpt"), ScriptLanguage.applescriptLanguage);

//display the returned value
var mydocument = app.documents.add();
with (mydocument) {
	var mypage = mydocument.pages.item(0);
	with (mypage) {
		var mytextFrame = textFrames.add();
		mytextFrame.geometricBounds = [ "0p0", "0p0", "18p0", "18p0"];
		mytextFrame.contents = myScript;
	}
}

The external script looks like that:

tell application "iTunes"
	get name of current track
end tell

If I run the script, then I get the answer, that "contents" expected "string,.." but recieved nothing.
The funny thing is: when I insert the applescript as a string in the doScript method, then it works...

Any help is welcome.
thx,
Konstantin
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