Run external script?

We don't have direct terminal execution build into action blocks, but I just made a package inspired by your https://discord.com/channels/761513181696098335/1416411953118580736 question.

The macOS demo package I made uses node's exec like this:

  // ...deleted code for simplicity
  const command = `osascript -e "set volume output volume ${vol}"`;
  exec(command, { timeout: 2000 }, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
      console.log(`Volume set to ${vol}`);
  })

The project itself is here: https://github.com/kkerti/package-macos-volume

In the index.js I am basically just using the exports.sendMessage = ... callback, which listens to any message sent from Grid Editor, where the triggered message is coming from a gps("package-macos-volume" ...) action call.

An other important part of the code is exports.loadPackage where a custom action block is passed for Editor to register it under the add action block mechanism.

If you want to try and make your own package, read the above linked's package readme and rename everything which starts with package-macos-volume to package-WHATEVER. I suspect even action blocks should have unique names, but they also have their own ids, so I might be wrong there, this system contiously changed as we built the first couple packages

Also although Grid Editor and a package can communicate back and forth, my macos demo only listens to messages sent from the Editor, it does not send back anything.

For examples on sending info back, you can look into the public intechstudio repositories which start with the name package-.

But as we mentioned with Dani in a different thread, next week we'll try to document the barebones essentials to get properly started and plan to make a basic websocket based demo project.

Wow, thanks a lot for the demo project! I'm super new to the Grid Editor. I installed your package, dropped the Volume Control utility into the "Endless" column. But I am not sure what to use for val. I tried replacing it with self:endless_value(), but that causes an error.
When I replace val with a number, it works (but is not dynamically changing, as expected). I am not sure how to assign the value from the knob to the utility.

next week we'll try to document the barebones essentials to get properly started and plan to make a basic websocket based demo project.

That's great! Looking forward to it!

Look for the profile for vsn1 with the name macos system volume and upload that to the module

Here val as it is now is undefined (nil), so directly you could add a locals action block or code block to make a value assignment like local val = self:endless_value()

Ah, got it. Now it's working! Thanks a lot!