On 11/10/05 11:25 AM, "Kevin Walzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Excel on Mac is AppleScriptable through a weird path: Excel exposes the > VBA object model to AppleScript. So, it's not AppleScriptable in the > standard sense and I am not sure how you would access it from Python. > Actually, that's completely false - you must have been thinking of PowerPoint X and (effectively) Word X and earlier, which have 'do Visual Basic' commands in AppleScript. (Word always had a limited pure AppleScript dictionary too, but it was far too buggy and didn't work properly - until Word 2004, which works just fine.) Although Excel does also have VBA, it has always had a first-rate AppleScript object model, even in earlier versions (X and earlier), which always worked well. In the most recent recent version, Office 2004, its AppleScript dictionary was completely rewritten along with Word's and PowerPoint's - and its native AppleScript is now even better, and complete. It mirrors the VBA model, definitely, and its AppleScript syntax is thus a little, shall we say "obscure", but it's pure AppleScript. Aside from its voluminous AppleScript dictionary, there's also an AppleScript Reference Guide you can get from MacTopia - the Microsoft Mac website (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/) /Resources/Developer/AppleScript. You can access it (and earlier versions too) via has's appscript from Python. -- Paul Berkowitz _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
