JXA | JavaScript Automation packages | Runtime Evironment library

In an osascript/JXA context, I need to map macOS keyCodes and modifiers to Unicode strings (for any keyboard layout, specified at run-time)

The obvious candidate appears to be UCKeyTranslate, but my attempts to get a reference to it from a JavaScript for Automation context have not been successful so far.

Does anybody know how to do this, perhaps in terms of ObjC.bindFunction ?

When ObjC libraries are imported into the 'JavaScript for Automation' (or 'JXA') JSContext, a global $ symbol is decorated with their methods.

So, for example, evaluating $.NSPasteboard in a vanilla JXA context evaluates to undefined, but after ObjC.import('Appkit'), we can write, and successfully evaluate, expressions like:

Back again with a JavaScipt / JXA question. I'm trying to register a response from a application that I'm calling with JXA. I am trying to register the value app.toDos.byId("HQebK1em72yZqc3WqTmyzx"). When I kick of the following script:

I'm trying to implement automation for the task manager Things 3 on macOS using JXA (Javascript for macOS automation) and I'm running it to a strange error. I have spent countless hours trying to fix this myself and with the help of others. I am trying to use the following method described in the documentation:

As following:

I would like to get the id (or name) of the Apple Note (using the "notes" app on mac) that is currently in view (not a floated not, just the "selected" note), using either Applescript or JXA. Is that possible?

I know how to get the id of the most recently saved note with Applescript:

Using Javascript for Automation (JXA) I want to identify the window the user has just clicked on. In other words, I want to identify the window that has just come to the front. How can I do that?

So far, I identify the front application, and try to get the window of that application which is in focus, like so:

I am running a JXA script as an agent using launchctl. The main logic of the script is supposed to be run at intervals of 2 seconds, which I have achieved using an infinite loop and delay. However, whenever my macbook goes to sleep the script stops execution and I have to unload and load the agent manually again.

My script:

Given a dataset as follows:

I have a script which assembles an xml document via string manipulation (which I wrote before I discovered the XML Suite).

When certain characters are included such as £, –(en-dash) and —(em dash) (I suspect all non-ascii characters), they're replaced with the unicode replacement character � (U+FFFD).

This only happens when there is an xml header at the start of the document: i.e. . Making any change at all to this fixes the problem and writes what I would expect to the file. My assumption is that applescript is trying to parse the string as xml, but I want it to pass as a string.

I am working in JXA and trying to count the number of events in a calendar. As far as I understand each event in a calendar is an object, in the class calendar.