Applescript with multiple arguments

AFAIK, Terminal.app does not accept arguments. So, I need for AppleScript to accept some arguments, then open Terminal to run them. Something like this:
tell application "Terminal"
    activate
    set shell to do script arg1 arg2 arg3 in window 1
end tell
All I've been able to accomplish is:
tell application "Terminal"
    activate
    set shell to do script arg1 in window 1
end tell
Help please?

OK I have no idea how anyone is posting code now with this new ASC software but I can;t get it to work no matter what I do.
If I make two changes to your code I get the following output in the Terminal window, which seems to be what you want.
Last login: Thu Jul 3 07:59:35 on console
LIBMACLAPcaggiano ~ %
LIBMACLAPcaggiano ~ % /Applications/adbFire/adb -s 192.168.1.196 shell
zsh: no such file or directory: /Applications/adbFire/adb
LIBMACLAPcaggiano ~ %
The changes were (for testing)
set daddr to "192.168.1.196"
hardcoding in the ip address rather then getting it setting it from argv. I'm a bit confused you show a run handler, how is the script being called?
And second
set shell to do script "/Applications/adbFire/adb -s" & space & daddr & space & " shell" in window 1
adding the -s right to the program string.
One last thing I run zsh not sure if that has any bearing here.
I suppose a screen shot is better then nothing
Actually you can pair down the command to
set shell to do script "/Applications/adbFire/adb -s " & daddr & " shell" in window 1
no real need for the & space in there

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"lower" = all lowercase text
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</pre>
Edit: how does the choose from list dialog handle those big strings? I'm guessing not very well - is that why you avoided using them?
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=SUM((A1:A4="All") * (B1:B4="Off"))
expanding the array expressions...
=SUM((A1="All", A2="All", A3="All", A4="All") * (B1="Off", B2="Off", B3="Off", B4="Off"))
at this point Excel computes the equality expressions, for example...
=SUM((TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE) * (TRUE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE))
expanding the array multiplication...
=SUM((TRUE * TRUE, FALSE * TRUE, TRUE * FALSE, FALSE * FALSE))
Excel, apparently, then, when forced to multiply Boolean values, maps TRUE -> 1 and FALSE -> 0...
=SUM((1 * 1, 0 * 1, 1 * 0, 0 * 0))
performing the multiplications...
=SUM((1, 0, 0, 0))
summing...
=1 + 0 + 0 + 0
resulting...
=1
I'm afraid, now, if I continue any further, Yvan will chastise me.

Send multiple argument to backend method

Dear All,
I am trying to send the multiple arguments to backend server method using Remote Object. At the backend I am using Weborb for .net
private function initWebOrb(event:AppEvent):void
    weborbCallback = event.callback;
var method:String = event.data.method as String;
var data:Array = event.parameterdata;
var op:AbstractOperation = remoteDataObject.getOperation(method);
op.addEventListener("result", getListResultHandler);
op.addEventListener("fault", onerrorweborb);
op.arguments =data;
op.send();
but It shows the error unable to find method with name "Testmethod" and the given argument types at Weborb.Util.MethodLookup..........
I have also tried.
private function initWebOrb(event:AppEvent):void
   weborbCallback = event.callback;
var method:String = event.data.method as String;
var data:Array = event.parameterdata;
var op:AbstractOperation = remoteDataObject.getOperation(method);
op.addEventListener("result", getListResultHandler);
op.addEventListener("fault", onerrorweborb);
op.send(data);
I also tried to send the data as object
var data:Object = event.parameterdata;
Note: I change the argument type accordingly while dispatching this event.

try this
<%
int parameter=0;
%>
<f:invoke var="${bpmobject}" methodName="oper" retAttName="op" retAttScope = "Page">
               <f:arg value=<%= parameter> type="int"/>
</f:invoke>
the name of bpmobject passed in the arguments form ...
edit : http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13154_01/bpm/docs65/taglib/f/arg.html
Edited by: cealex on Jan 24, 2010 5:34 AM - :pass "parameter" Parameter :)

Split on multiple arguments

I'd imagine this question has been asked lots of times already, but couldn't really find an answer when searching the forum, se here it goes:
I want to split a string on multiple arguments instead of only one.
The aim of it is to do some (quite simple) tokenizing, and I want to split on whitespace, dots, comma's, question mark and all. (in total I'd say about 8 characters)
Read somewhere that this would be possible with the split function, but can't find how.
Is there an easy way, or do I need some looping in which I first split on one character, after that on the other?

Igor_Pavlove wrote:
And the pattern class looks quite useful as well, need to look into that one as well.Well, it defines the split("[/s.,?!:;]") argument thing. The docs for split() refer to it in the "see also" part and by talking about regex.

SUMIFS + multiple arguments for a condition.

Hello,
I have a function looking like this :
=SUMIFS(Test :: $J,Test :: $I,"="&$A5,Test :: $E,"="&C$3,Test :: $C,"="&355)+SUMIFS(Test :: $J,Test :: $I,"="&$A5,Test :: $E,"="&C$3,Test :: $C,"="&360)+SUMIFS(Test :: $J,Test :: $I,"="&$A5,Test :: $E,"="&C$3,Test :: $C,"="&432)
and I would like to know if I can get it shorter, something like :
=SUMIFS(Test :: $J,Test :: $I,"="&$A5,Test :: $E,"="&C$3,Test :: $C,"="&(355,360,432))
I tried multiple syntaxes, but none seems to work =/ The idea is that my last condition is valid when Test::*C is equal to 355 or 360 or 432.
Additionally, I know the formula works if written : "="&355, but can someone tell me what is the meaning of the "&" and why a simple "="355 returns a syntax error ?
Thanks a lot !

If you're running out of columns on your main table, there's no reason the OR formula can't be placed on the Test table.
The problem with the proposed condition: Test :: $C,"="&OR(355,360,432)
is that the cell in Test C will meet that condition only if ti contains the boolean value TRUE.
OR(n,n,n), where n is any number, returns FALSE only if all of the numbers are zero, and returns TRUE if any of the three arguments is a non-zero number.
As the cell addressed by Test::$C always contains a number, not a Boolean value, the comparison (the number in) Test::$C is equal to (the Boolean value) TRUE will never itself be TRUE. As that condition never returns a TRUE value, none of the values in column J will be included in the SUMIF total.
That SUMIFS conditions cannot accept multiple arguments is not true. Here's a small example. The Formula is shown in the entry box, the result in the selected cell (in a footer row), and the rows included in the sum are highlighted in yellow.
Regards,
Barry

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