On Jul 27, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> I'm trying to use Appscript to send keystrokes to iPhoto (sadly,
> there's no other way to get the job done), but I can't figure out how
> to make it work. I thought it should work like this:
>
> ipe = app("System Events").processes['iPhoto']
> ipe.keystroke(u"foo")
>
> But this yields the error:
>
>>>> ipe.keystroke(u"foo")
>>>>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/
> lib/python2.3/site-packages/appscript/specifier.py",
> line 203, in __call__
> raise CommandError(self, (args, kargs), e)
> CommandError: Too many direct parameters: command was called on a
> reference but already has a direct parameter.
> Failed command: app(u'/System/Library/CoreServices/System
> Events.app').processes['iPhoto'].keystroke(u'foo')
This error sounds like it wants you to pass a keyword argument
instead of a positional argument ("direct parameter" in Apple Event
speak). I don't know much about appscript and I don't have iPhoto
installed so I can't provide any specific advice.
-bob
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