Hi! All
I strongly believe that MacPython can be used to write similar code to perform Applescript code functions. I try to find corresponding MacPython code for apple script. For example following adobe apple script code
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
set myDoc to make document
tell myDoc
tell page 1
set myTextFrame to make text frame
set geometric bounds of myTextFrame to {"6p0","6p0","18p0","18p0"}
set contents of myTextFrame to "HELLO"
end tell
end tell
end tell
I can run this script and set text frame on ID document. Now the questions are:
1. we can create MacPython obj say cs = app("Adobe InDesign CS2")
2. Then from cs we could have myDoc=cs.open(filename)
How do we make a new document by using MacPython code??
From appscript help, we can get some description like :
application.make(...) ---- make new element
[new=Type] ---- The class of the item to be created
[at =InsertionRef] ----The location at which to insert the item
[with_data=record] --- the initialial data for the item
[with_properties=Record] -- Initialial value for the properties of the new object
result reference
The question is "Do I need fill all 4 paramters in order to create a item?" I kew the type could be k.document, etc.
On Adobe InDesign manual, there is no make method for application, I wonder if application will accept the commands.
3. I can write something like
cs.active_document.pages[1].text_frames[1]
and execute it without error.
But how can one get the information from
cs.active_document.pages[1].text_frames[1].contents
here cs is app("Adobe InDesign CS2")
If I print cs.active_document.pages[1].text_frames[1].contents, it should print out empty string or some string based on content. But it print out
app("Adobe InDesign CS2").active_document.pages[1].text_frames[1].contents
In TextEdit, we can use get() and set(). I do not know what command one needs to send cs.active_document.pages[1].text_frames[1].contents
in order to get the information.
Thanks for all your help.
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