[hadocon]

Can I controll the Studio TVR with Applescript? For example I want to be able to play and pause live video with Applescript?

[Diggory Laycock]

That sig is quite annoying, I clicked it twice

Yes, it is scriptable, see the example scripts folder and the app's dictionary.

I don't know about pausing live video.

Code:
Class application: Formac StudioTVR's top level scripting object.
Plural form:
	applications
Elements:
	document by name, by numeric index, before/after another element, as a range of elements, satisfying a test
	document by name, by numeric index, before/after another element, as a range of elements, satisfying a test
	window by name, by numeric index, before/after another element, as a range of elements, satisfying a test, by ID
Properties:
	<Inheritance>  application  [r/o]  -- All of the properties of the superclass.

Class document: A StudioTVR document.
Plural form:
	documents
Elements:
	studioTVRTuner by numeric index, before/after another element, as a range of elements, satisfying a test
Properties:
	<Inheritance>  document  [r/o]  -- All of the properties of the superclass.

Class studioTVRTuner: A StudioTVRTuner.  This abstract class represents the basic tuner in StudioTVR
Plural form:
	studioTVRTuners
Properties:
	<Inheritance>  item  [r/o]  -- All of the properties of the superclass.
	channel List  list  -- The valid channel List.
	channel Name  Unicode text  -- The name of the current channel.
	NextRecMovieName  Unicode text  -- The name of next recorded movie.
	RecordMovieWithTime  integer  -- Captures a Movie with the length of seconds
	video Dimension  integer  -- The relative dimension of the video display (0.15 to 1.0).
	InsertScheduleEntry  list  -- Schedules a Recording: {'ChannelName', 'RecMovieName', StartDate, StopDate}
	channel Index  integer  -- The index of the current channel.

[hadocon]

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
That sig is quite annoying, I clicked it twice

Yes, it is scriptable, see the example scripts folder and the app's dictionary.

I don't know about pausing live video.

Ha ha! perhaps I should put a link on my sig to a page showing how many peole I have tricked...

Anyways, thanx for the info.

Is there anyone out there that has a Formac Studio TVR? If I can't script PLAY/PAUSE I have no use for it... The Studio TVR has the ability to pause live TV right?

[biscool]

I don't understand why you would want to use applescript to pause the video. You can schedule recordings, wouldn't that accomplish the same thing?

[hadocon]

Originally posted by biscool:
I don't understand why you would want to use applescript to pause the video. You can schedule recordings, wouldn't that accomplish the same thing?

I am working on some projects for the human media lab. One of the projects requires that I have this ability. Basically I want the live video to pause on an event and resume on another event. To do this easily I need Applescript-ability of these features.

[Diggory Laycock]

Well - the play/pause feature is not exposed in AS.

However - you could possibly implement it via AppleScript UI Scripting (requires a beta install from Apple)

The Play/Pause button is in the window's ToolBar - so I should imagine that it can be pressed via AS UI Scripting.

I'll check on this later - (my Formac is not currently attached to the machine with UI Scripting on.)

[Diggory Laycock]

Just got this to work (requires UI Scripting Beta from Apple and "Enable Access for Assistive Devices" enabled in the "Universal Access" prefpane)

Code:
tell application "Formac StudioTVR"
	activate
end tell



tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Formac StudioTVR"
		tell window "Formac StudioTVR 3"
			tell tool bar 1
				tell group 2
					tell button 1
						click
					end tell
				end tell
			end tell
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

p.s. I'm not sure if it works if I have my formac toolbar setup differently to yours.

[hadocon]

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
Just got this to work (requires UI Scripting Beta from Apple and "Enable Access for Assistive Devices" enabled in the "Universal Access" prefpane)

Hey, thanx! I dont have a Studio TVR, and probably wont have one for a few months yet. I still need to convince my advisor to buy one for the lab... I am not guru with Applescipt - but what you wrote will accomplish what I need?

[Diggory Laycock]

Originally posted by hadocon:
Hey, thanx! I dont have a Studio TVR, and probably wont have one for a few months yet. I still need to convince my advisor to buy one for the lab... I am not guru with Applescipt - but what you wrote will accomplish what I need?

I didn't test it completely - but upon running the script on my system - caused the TVR app to behave as if you had pressed the pause button.