AppleScript Editor, write message to the "Result" window

Question

I am using the Mac OS X Apple Script Editor and (while debugging) instead of writing a lot of display dialog statements, I'd like to write the results of some calculation in the window below, called "Result" (I have the German UI here, so the translation is a guess). So is there a write/print statement that I can use for putting messages in the "standard out" window? I am not asking to put the messages in a logfile on the file system, it is purely temporary.

Paul R · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-09T18:51:16.817

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You can use the log command, which puts messages into the Log History window, e.g.:

edited Feb 09 '16 at 18:51

answered May 01 '10 at 12:39

Paul R

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If you want to only see the results from your log statements, you can tap the Events and Replies buttons so that they are unhighlighted. – Senseful Oct 20 '13 at 02:01
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Hooray broken images from before SO had a deal with Imgur :D – Ky - Feb 09 '16 at 18:27
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@BenC.R.Leggiero: thanks for the heads up - I just added a new screen shot. – Paul R Feb 09 '16 at 18:45
@theonlygusti: in what way does it not work ? What happens when you get to the `log` statement ? – Paul R Jan 14 '17 at 22:12
@PaulR it just doesn't post anything. I was using it (trying to) inside a tell block though. – theonlygusti Jan 14 '17 at 22:15
OK - try it on its own first to make sure it works in isolation, perhaps ? – Paul R Jan 14 '17 at 22:21

score 14 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 07 '17 at 11:11

Log is the correct way of doing this; however, if your user base is more familiar with shell script you can do the following.

set val to 123
do shell script "echo The value: " & val

Output

Result:
"The value: 123"

With this approach you don’t constantly have to telling users that they need to enable ‘Show Log’

AppleScript Editor, write message to the "Result" window

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