[texworks] Scrip: Questions about the API

[Paul A Norman]

P.P.S

do we have any access to the clipboard in QTScript?

On 18 March 2010 14:51, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
> P.S.
>
> Jonathan, did you mention a while ago that QT could display an html
> browser window?
>
> If so can QTScript call this and communicate with it through the
> browser's object's DOM?
>
> Then we could design user interaction windows and use them from script.
>
> Paul
>
> On 18 March 2010 14:27, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Jonathan or Stefan,
>>
>> Tremendous number of existing functions and a few properties. I though
>> the target.text porperty was a nice and useful surprise.
>> After I had  a look through the debugger, I was left wondering about
>> these things,
>>
>>   1.  is there any way I can call something like
>> TW.app.showMessage('some text');  (like window.alert() in browsers) ?
>>
>>   2.  And do we have any mechanism for QTScript object / variable
>> persistence between calls in same editor session?
>>
>>   3. Can QTScript save text to a file on disk?
>>                (looks like an indirect flow could be
>>                        app.fileNew();  target.inserText();
>> target.saveAs();  target.close(); )
>>
>>                         Helps JSON type persistence between sessions.
>>
>>   4. Can I request input form the user in, and returned to,  QTScript -
>>         a) like an input dialogue box?  (window.input() in browsers)
>>         b) ok  - cancel, button box? (window.confirm() in browsers)
>>
>>   5. Can a file dialog box be used and the result returned as a
>> string to script?
>>
>>   6. a) Can I obtain the directory of the executable?
>>       b) Can I obtain the scripts directory?
>>
>> I apologise if these things are in the API,  could you please point me to them?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Paul
>>
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