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javascript to run client's oulook using ActiveXObject with attachment from the Downloads folder on the local system

I need help with this problem.
I use the code below to run the client's outlook new email with attachment,
it is was working perfectly when I was using the exact path of the file like
add. ("C:/USERS/MY USER NAME/Downloads/".fileName).
But when I changed it to Add("%userprofile%/Downloads/"+fileName) to access the current user logged in,
it didn't work with no errors, it seems can't find the file.
Is there something wrong?? Or different way to do that??
setTimeout(function(){
var theApp = new ActiveXObject("Outlook.Application");
var objNS = theApp.GetNameSpace('MAPI');
var theMailItem = theApp.CreateItem(0);
theMailItem.Attachments.Add("%userprofile%/Downloads/"+FileName);
theMailItem.display();
}, 2000);

The source of the attachment can be a file (represented by the full file system path with a file name) or an Outlook item that constitutes the attachment. The method doesn't accept environment variables, you must specify the fully-qualified file path.
To get a fully-qualified file path you can use the following code:
var ObjShell = new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application");
var wShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
var path = wShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%userprofile%\\Downloads\\");
So then you will be able to attach a file:
theMailItem.Attachments.Add(path+FileName);

Open a directory of images into separate layers using Adobe extension

I am developing an Adobe extension, from within the extension I want to load a directory of images into separate layers within a document. I am completely impartial to how this is done - so if there is a better approach, please share it with me. My current working method involves using the open() method which opens a file in a new document, then duplicate the layer of the new document into the original document. An example of this can be seen below.
// open new document
var originalDoc = app.activeDocument;
var doc = open( new File( filePath ) );
// duplicate to original document
var layer = doc.activeLayer;
var newLayer = layer.duplicate(originalDoc, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING);
// close new document
doc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
This method is extraordinarily slow, especially for large images. After doing some Googling I discovered that Photoshop has a built-in method for creating an image stack. This feature uses a .jsx script itself and it can be found on GitHub. Looking around online I found a few people trying to load a folders contents as layers, perfect. The main code I was interested in is below.
var folder = new Folder('~/Desktop/MyFolder');
function runLoadStack(folderPath) {
var loadLayersFromScript = true;
// #include 'Load Files into Stack.jsx'
var fList = folder.getFiles('*.png')
var aFlag = true;
loadLayers.intoStack(fList, aFlag);
}
runLoadStack(folder)
I immediately noticed the #include method of importing the stack methods, I can not find any official documentation for this (also not friendly with minification). Also, if the script is not placed with the same directory as Load Files into Stack.jsx it will throw the error Unable to open file: anonymous. And even after solving all of these issues when I run the .jsx script from within my extension using $.evalFile() I am having the same error as if the script is not in the correct directory: Unable to open file: anonymous. Error is being thrown on line 762 of an imported jsx.
Any help resolving the error I am experiencing or simply on how to load an array of image paths into layers (faster method) will be greatly appreciated!
Here is the code I am using within my extension:
var loadLayersFromScript = true;
var strPresets = localize("$$$/ApplicationPresetsFolder/Presets=Presets");
var strScripts = localize("$$$/PSBI/Automate/ImageProcessor/Photoshop/Scripts=Scripts");
var jsxFilePath = app.path + "/" + strPresets + "/" + strScripts + "/Load Files into Stack.jsx";
$.evalFile( new File( jsxFilePath ) );
loadLayers.intoStack( new Folder("/c/Users/Me/teststack").getFiles(), true );

Photoshop's inbuilt scripts has a script to do this here's the github link
https://github.com/ES-Collection/Photoshop-Scripts/blob/master/Import%20Folder%20As%20Layers.jsx
use this script inside your CEP extension

How to create file(.apk) from URL in Jaggery?

I have application store and applications have their url. I want to download apks from those urls to my jaggery server. Although below code(my first solution) create myApp.apk successfully, its not work properly.
First i tried to below code,
var url = "http://img.xxx.com/006/someApp.apk";
var data = get(url, {});
var file = new File("myApp.apk");
file.open("w");
file.write(data.data);
file.close();
when i print data.data value, its look like
i also tried,
var file = new File("http://img.xxx.com/006/someApp.apk");
file.saveAs("myApp.txt");
Can anyone help me?

.apk files are Android application files, and they are expected to start with PK, because they are actually zip archives!
They're not meant to be unzipped, although you can do it to see some of the application resources (but there are better ways for reverse engineering .apk files such as Apktool, if that's what you're looking for).

According to jaggery documentations, file.write is writing the String representation of the object to the file. So that's why you are getting an apk file which cannot be installed.
However you can make it work using copyURLToFile in apache commons-io java library as follows since jaggery supports java itself and all of WSO2 products have apache commons-io library in their class path.
<%
var JFileUtils = Packages.org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
var JUrl = Packages.java.net.URL;
var JFile = Packages.java.io.File;
var url = new JUrl("http://img.xxx.com/006/someApp.apk");
JFileUtils.copyURLToFile(url, new JFile("myApp.apk"));
print("done");
%>
Your file will be stored on $CARBON_HOME directory by default, unless you specified relative or absolute path to the file.

Get / Read Text File from URL - Javascript for After Effects

I'm used to selecting, opening and reading a text file (CSV, JSON) from my local directory. I now have access to our data feeds online but don't know how to do the same thing with a URL instead of a local file.
For a local file I simply use something like this:
var myFile = File.openDialog();
myFile.open();
myFile.read();
Is there a way to do this with a feed from a URL in javascript for AE?
Here is one of the feeds: feeds.nfl.com/feeds-rs/schedules.json

No need to save file, just one line do the trick =)
data = JSON.parse(system.callSystem('curl -s "https://path_to_json"'));

I think in After Effects the easiest way is to do a system call.
The Socket object from ExtendScript is complicated. Look at GetURLs.jsx by Rorohiko.
You need to allow your script to access the network. See this stackoverflow
# Mac Osx
var curlcmd = "curl feeds.nfl.com/feeds-rs/schedules.json > ~/Desktop/test/schedules.json";
var stdout = system.callSystem(curlcmd);
$.writeln(stdout);
var file = File("~/Desktop/test/schedules.json");
file.open();
var content = file.read();
file.close();
$.writeln(content);

WIX: Where and how should my CustomAction create and read a temporary file?

I have a script CustomAction (Yes, I know all about the opinions that say don't use script CustomActions. I have a different opinion.)
I'd like to run a command, and capture the output. I can do this using the WScript.Shell COM object, then invoking shell.Exec(). But, this flashes a visible console window for the executed command.
To avoid that, I understand I can use the shell.Run() call, and specify "hidden" for the window appearance. But .Run() doesn't give me access to the StdOut of the executed process, so that means I'd need to create a temporary file and redirect the exe output to the temp file, then later read that temp file in script.
Some questions:
is this gonna work?
How do I generate a name for the temporary file? In .NET I could use a static method in the System.IO namespace, but I am using script here. I need to insure that the use has RW access, and also that no anti-virus program is going to puke on this.
Better ideas? I am trying very hard to avoid C/C++.
I could avoid all this if there were a way to query websites in IIS7 from script, without resorting to the IIS6 Compatibility pack, without using .NET (Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManager), and without execing a process (appcmd list sites).
I already asked a separate question on that topic; any suggestions on that would also be appreciated.

Answering my own question...
yes, this is going to work.
Use the Scripting.FileSystemObject thing within Javascript. There's a GetTempName() method that produces a file name suitable for temporary use, and a GetSpecialFolder() method that gets the location of the temp folder. There's even a BuildPath() method to combine them.
so far I don't have any better ideas.
Here's the code I used:
function GetWebSites_IIS7_B()
{
var ParseOneLine = function(oneLine) {
...regex parsing of output...
};
LogMessage("GetWebSites_IIS7_B() ENTER");
var shell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
var tmpdir = fso.GetSpecialFolder(SpecialFolders.TemporaryFolder);
var tmpFileName = fso.BuildPath(tmpdir, fso.GetTempName());
var windir = fso.GetSpecialFolder(SpecialFolders.WindowsFolder);
var appcmd = fso.BuildPath(windir,"system32\\inetsrv\\appcmd.exe") + " list sites";
// use cmd.exe to redirect the output
var rc = shell.Run("%comspec% /c " + appcmd + "> " + tmpFileName, WindowStyle.Hidden, true);
// WindowStyle.Hidden == 0
var ts = fso.OpenTextFile(tmpFileName, OpenMode.ForReading);
var sites = [];
// Read from the file and parse the results.
while (!ts.AtEndOfStream) {
var oneLine = ts.ReadLine();
var line = ParseOneLine(oneLine);
LogMessage(" site: " + line.name);
sites.push(line);
}
ts.Close();
fso.DeleteFile(tmpFileName);
return sites;
}