AppleScript Support

Reveal has support for refreshing application snapshots and other functionality via AppleScript.

For a full list of AppleScript commands and classes, see the Reveal entry in the AppleScript Editor Dictionary ( AppleScript Editor → File→Open Dictionary… or ⌘⌥O).

Example AppleScript to refresh application snapshot.

tell application "Reveal"      -- Activate the application     activate      -- We can check that the running Reveal instance has an active document. We     -- do this because it is possible to have Reveal running but not have a document     -- window up. Eg, have opened the preferences but closed the document window.     if (count of documents) > 0 then          -- We can check if the document has a selected service         if (selected service of document 1) is not missing value then              -- We can immediately refresh the active document since we have a selected              -- remote Reveal Service.             refresh document 1          end if      end if  end tell