[Pythonmac-SIG] Appscript

[Conan C. Albrecht]

I'm using appscript to script Word and BibDesk. I need to run the script from the "Scripts" menu in one of these programs. However, my .py script won't show up on their menus, even if the script is in the right directory. The python script will show up on the system- wide scripts menu, but not on an application's menu. I changed the file extension to .scpt, and it still won't show up.

import osax

sa.display_dialog("Hi world")





Thanks in advance.

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-- Get this script's directory and name
tell application "Finder" to (path to me) as Unicode text
set scriptname to POSIX path of result

-- Remove the .scpt extension, and append .py instead
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {".scpt"}
set textItems to text items of scriptname
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
set scriptname to textItems as string
set scriptname to scriptname & ".py"

-- Run the script
do shell script "python '" & scriptname & "'"
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Conan C. Albrecht, Ph.D.
Information Systems Department
Brigham Young University
Email: co...@warp.byu.edu
Phone: +1-801-805-1615
Web/Blog: http://warp.byu.edu/

To fix this, I added a simple AppleScript to the same (scripts) directory. I've included this at the bottom, if it helps. So the AppleScript runs first, then it calls "do shell script" to run the Python program. My problem is that the script can't call any GUI functions, such as the following: sa = osax.OSAX() # allows use of standard additions (like display dialog) If I run from the command line, the dialog shows up fine. If I run from within Word or BibDesk, the dialog doesn't show up at all. I think it is because "do shell script" runs it in an invisible shell that can't access the main GUI. So the dialog comes up, but is not visible to the user. The calling application (Word or BibDesk) freezes since the dialog is "up" but can't be responded to by the user. Is there a better way to do this? How can I run Python scripts from the Scripts menu in a program?

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