Indeed, that works! And I thought I'd tried that and gotten an error, but my
syntax must have been wrong.
Many thanks, Jeff. It's such a relief to be able to move on that I won't even
bother to dope-slap myself. One of these days I'll read Matt Neuburg's book,
but for now... I'll move on.
--Andy
On Jun 25, 2011, at 8:18 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Hi Andy.
>
> It seems that the indirection confuses AppleScript, and it doesn't know which
> dictionary to use. Is there a reason you don't use the following more simple
> code?
>
> tell application id "com.yourcompany.TrivialScriptable"
>
> That works better in my testing.
>
> -Jeff
>
>
> On Jun 25, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
>
>> This has been bedeviling me all day. As an AppleScript novice I suspect -- I
>> *hope* -- I'm missing something trivial.
>>
>> I have a scriptable app I want to write AppleScript that targets the app via
>> its bundle identifier rather than its name. But when I do what seems the
>> obvious thing, I get a -1708 error, which I believe means the app doesn't
>> understand the command I'm giving it.
>>
>> I wrote a trivially scriptable app to isolate and illustrate the problem.
>> Here's my simple script, copied and pasted exactly from AppleScript Editor:
>>
>> get application id "com.yourcompany.TrivialScriptable"
>> set myApp to result
>> tell myApp
>> activate
>> greet("hello!!!")
>> end tell
>>
>> If you're seeing the above as rich text, notice how "greet" is not bold and
>> blue, indicating that the AppleScript compiler indeed thinks my app does not
>> implement the "greet" command.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure I've set up the app correctly, because targeting it via the
>> app name works:
>>
>> tell application "TrivialScriptable"
>> activate
>> greet ("this works")
>> end tell
>>
>> In this case the "greet" is properly highlighted.
>>
>> What am I missing here? Is this some quirk of AppleScript?
>>
>> Note: I want to use the bundle identifier rather than the app name because
>> in the case of my real app I have an iOS app with the same name. This means
>> there is an XXX.app sitting in the build directory of my iOS project. This
>> confuses AppleScript into targeting the wrong XXX.app.
>>
>> If you want to see this for yourself, a 26K zip file containing the code for
>> TrivialScriptable is in my public iDisk (user aglee). Build the app and try
>> running the above AppleScript snippets in AppleScript Editor.
>>
>> If I can't solve this I may change my approach and define a custom URL
>> scheme and use that rather than AppleScript for the inter-app communication
>> I need.
>>
>> --Andy
>
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