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Logic script examples

Johnny Boersma
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Logic Script examples

 (Logic tab --> Script action)

 

-- App --

PlayMusic / PlayAudio

Description: Play music

Methods:

- playmusic(string url)

- playmusic(string title, string url)

- playmusic(string title, string url, string artists, string artworkUrl)

- playmusic(string title, string url, string artists, string artworkUrl, string purchaseUrl)

Example: app.playmusic("Sample Track", "http://url.to.track", "Artist", "http://artwork.url")

Note: Please make sure the URL you're using is a direct link to a music file (for example: http://www.example.com/music.mp3). Using a link that leads to a third party music player will not work.  

Example: app.playmusic(screen.currentitem.title, screen.currentitem.enclosure.url, "", screen.currentitem.media_content.url)

This will use the fields from your Excel or Web Service.

 

title

title

enclosure_url

url to the stream

media_content_url

cover art image

 

StopMusic

Description: Stop the currently playing track

Method: stopmusic()

Example: app.stopmusic()

 

Save Event to your Calendar App.

Description: Save event to calendar upon click of a button.

Method: start.start => app.addevent(name, startDate, endDate, location, url)

Example:

start.start => app.addevent("Dance Event 2016", "08/25/2016 18:00", "08/25/2016 23:30", "Amsterdam, the Netherlands", "http://www.danceevent.com") 

fields from Web Service or Excel

start.start => app.addevent(screen.currentitem.eventTitle,  screen.currentitem.eventStartTime,  screen.currentitem.eventEndTime, screen.currentitem.location, screen.currentitem.website)

 

-- WebService --

 

Execute:

Description: Call this method to execute the webservice. When a previous result is available that will be the result of this method.

Method: execute()

Example: webservice.execute()

 


 

 

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  • Patrick van Gogh
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    Can you give an example of the intended use of the properties? Are they meant to be used in a Script-action in the OnClick-repsonse of a button, for example?

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  • Johnny Boersma
    Hello Patrick, Yes they can be used in the Logic tab with a script block. You can use the {device:fieldname} (id/currentdate etc.) in web services as parameters in combination with a button for example.
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  • Scott30134

    Is there a full list of these methods? Where do we find the options and variables???

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  • Chris

    I would like to have this documentation either.
    There are so many different variables used in so many different cases.

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  • Joost de Graaf

    I would like to call a block from a script. Not with the default goto function. But from a script so that I can pass a variable. So one variable goto block A and another variable goto block B

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  • Robert Ritchie

    Hi Johnny,
    I got app.playmusic() working great with a simple button. Now besides playmusic() and stopmusic() are there other methods not listed here that I can use to control the player?

    Your native player works great but it's more tailored for music and not podcasts. I want to add find a hack (perhaps using a script method) where I can add "skip back 15 seconds" and "skip forward 15 seconds" function into the playlist so that the << and >> buttons on native player instead of skipping to another track, will skip seconds.. then I can replace those << and >> images with a loop back/forward images and have a more user-friendly native podcast player in appmachine. Do you think this is possible by tweaking something in Logic scripts? 

    Also I got playmusic(string title, string url, string artists, string artworkUrl, string purchaseUrl) fully working but wanted to know is there any way I can change the "Buy" text from purchaseUrl. Thanks! Rob

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