On 3/8/12 10:05 AM, Christian Prinoth wrote:
Hi,
 I just learned that appscript development has been halted. I use it a
lot, especially in scripts that automate interactions between Office and
various other aspects of OSX. Does anyone know if there is any
alternative coming up?
More generally,
Thanks, works great now!
>excel = app('Microsoft Excel')
>ws = excel.worksheets['Sheet1']
>excel.AS_newreference(ws.AS_aemreference.elements('X117'))[address]
>
>
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Christian Prinoth wrote:
> My problem is that this way I can only reference a range in the currently
> active worksheet.
> Using standard appscript syntax I would do the following:
>
> app('Microsoft Excel').worksheets['Sheet1'].ranges['A1'].value()
>
> to access data on a specific cell on a spec
Has,
thanks for your reply. I have tried doing what you suggest. the four char
code for the range object is X117, so I did the following:
app('Microsoft
Excel').AS_newreference(aem.app.elements('X117'))['A1'].value()
and this works fine in both Excel 2008 and Excel 2011. My problem is that
this
Christian Prinoth wrote:
> Just upgraded to Office 2011, and it appears appscript is not working
> correctly with Excel 2011.
>
> If I do the following:
>
> app(u'/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft
> Excel').ranges[u'B2'].value()
>
> I get:
>
> AttributeError: 'Property' object has no a
On Feb 5, 2011, at 1:15 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Given your feedback below, is appscript+System Events a reasonable approach
> for test automation?
I'm sure there are many with greater experience, but I'd second everything has
said about scripting system events: brittle and fiddly pretty we
ppscript+System Events a reasonable approach for
test automation?
FYI, there is Mac automation tool that doesn't rely on screen capture - called
Squish. I've just started evaluating it.
thanks,
-Demian
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From: has
To: [email protected]
Su
dgodon wrote:
> Can anyone share some good examples of scripting System Events? For
> instance, to select sub-menu options of an app, or to open/close app
> windows, or dock panels in Photoshop.
GUI Scripting's a last resort where applications don't provide a
suitable scripting interface of
In article
,
Christian Prinoth wrote:
> I am trying the following:
>
> mail=app('mail')
> msgs=mail.selection()
> msg=msgs[0]
>
> now I would like to use
> msg.mail_attachments
> but this won't work. If I ask for help, under elements I get the following:
>
> Elements:
> AEType("attc")
Sean DiZazzo wrote:
I'm using appscript to do some work in Quicktime, and it keeps
erroring out somewhat unpredictably. I am opening and closing lots
of documents in quick succession when it happens. It doesn't happen
every time, but about 70%-80% of the time. When it errors, it
always
Noah Coccaro wrote:
> I have a long running server that uses appscript to send keystroke commands
> to System Events.
> It seems that System Events does not run constantly, or frequently dies.
> Quite often, appscript seems to be in a state where it incorrectly thinks
> System Events is runnin
I use a function whose sole purpose is to return a reference to System
Events to avoid this problem:
import appscript as ap
def getSystemEvents():
try:
# ask System Events for processes to see if it's there
throwaway = ap.app('/System Events').processes
heya, gary - thanks!! good to know.
(and, good to hear from you - hope things are going well!)
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Gary Poster wrote:
> Hey Ken. :-)
>
> It hung for me.
>
> Gary
>
> got a CommandError at count 57474
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in
> F
Hey Ken. :-)
It hung for me.
Gary
got a CommandError at count 57474
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "", line 21, in first_timeout
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/appscript/reference.py", line
504, in __call__
appscript.reference.CommandError: Comma
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Ned Deily wrote:
> In article
> <[email protected]>,
> ken manheimer wrote:
> > the behavior is an appscript.reference.CommandError timeout after some
> > number of appscript transactions. there seems to be a hard limit
Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> > Yes, that's part of the problem. The other part is that .pth handling
> > seems to have changed from 2.5 to 2.6.
>
> That's news to me. I've been using zipped eggs with 2.6 without any
> problems.
Don't know that it had anything to do with eggs. What I was seeing wa
Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
> On 17 Sep, 2009, at 23:50, Bill Janssen wrote:
>
> > Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> >
> >> Bill,
> >>
> >> Appscript probably gets installed as a zipped egg, the .python-eggs
> >> directory gets created when a real filesystem path is needed for an
> >> item in such an egg.
On 17 Sep, 2009, at 23:50, Bill Janssen wrote:
Ronald Oussoren wrote:
Bill,
Appscript probably gets installed as a zipped egg, the .python-eggs
directory gets created when a real filesystem path is needed for an
item in such an egg.
Yes, that's part of the problem. The other part is that
On 17 Sep, 2009, at 23:50, Bill Janssen wrote:
Ronald Oussoren wrote:
Bill,
Appscript probably gets installed as a zipped egg, the .python-eggs
directory gets created when a real filesystem path is needed for an
item in such an egg.
Yes, that's part of the problem. The other part is that
In article <[email protected]>,
Aahz wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009, Bill Janssen wrote:
> > Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> >> If you install appscript as an unzipped egg the problem should go away.
> > How does one do that?>
> You can unzip manually as with any other .ZIP file, or you
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009, Bill Janssen wrote:
> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>
>> If you install appscript as an unzipped egg the problem should go away.
>
> How does one do that?
You can unzip manually as with any other .ZIP file, or you can do
easy_install with -Z.
--
Aahz ([email protected])
Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Appscript probably gets installed as a zipped egg, the .python-eggs
> directory gets created when a real filesystem path is needed for an
> item in such an egg.
Yes, that's part of the problem. The other part is that .pth handling
seems to have changed from 2
On 14 Sep 2009, at 16:28, Bill Janssen wrote:
has wrote:
You can install appscript from source using plain old distutils; the
setup.py script will use setuptools if it's available and distutils
if
not. Though if there are problems with setuptools then I'd suggest
filing bug reports on tha
has wrote:
> On 13 Sep 2009, at 18:52, Bill Janssen wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to disentangle appscript from setuptools? I just
> > downloaded the sources to my Snow Leopard machine, did
> >
> > python setup.py build
> > python setup.py install
> >
> > which went just fine. But then I did
> >
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
> Appscript probably gets installed as a zipped egg, the .python-eggs
> directory gets created when a real filesystem path is needed for an item
> in such an egg.
>
> If you install appscript as an unzipped egg the problem should go away.
My auto-i
On 13 Sep 2009, at 18:52, Bill Janssen wrote:
Is it possible to disentangle appscript from setuptools? I just
downloaded the sources to my Snow Leopard machine, did
python setup.py build
python setup.py install
which went just fine. But then I did
% python
import appscript
and got this
Bill,
Appscript probably gets installed as a zipped egg, the .python-eggs
directory gets created when a real filesystem path is needed for an
item in such an egg.
If you install appscript as an unzipped egg the problem should go away.
Ronald
On 13 sep 2009, at 19:52, Bill Janssen wrote
Norman Gray wrote:
Did you force the reinstall? It appears so, since it reached the
10.6 appscript install.
How do you do that? My own problem here [1] is that I can't work
out how to make appscript play with python 2.6 (or 10.6).
If the problem is that easy_install is installing appscr
On Sep 11, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Norman Gray wrote:
Did you force the reinstall? It appears so, since it reached the
10.6 appscript install.
How do you do that? My own problem here [1] is that I can't work out
how to make appscript play with python 2.6 (or 10.6).
I thought I had used the -U o
Greetings
On 2009 Sep 11, at 15:02, Brad Howes wrote:
Did you force the reinstall? It appears so, since it reached the
10.6 appscript install.
How do you do that? My own problem here [1] is that I can't work out
how to make appscript play with python 2.6 (or 10.6).
Sorry. No idea what
On Sep 11, 2009, at 12:03 AM, Noel Rappin wrote:
I did reinstall. I'm still having the same problem with Appscript
0.20, Snow Leopard's Python 2.6.1
The issue happens in a different place each time, but the error
looks like this:
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/appscript/refere
I did reinstall. I'm still having the same problem with Appscript
0.20, Snow Leopard's Python 2.6.1
The issue happens in a different place each time, but the error looks like this:
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/appscript/reference.py",
line 504, in __call__
appscript.reference.Com
On Sep 9, 2009, at 1:53 AM, has wrote:
Noel Rappin wrote:
I have a Python script that I've been using to communicate back and
forth with iTunes via py-appscript -- it's worked fine for a long
time.
Snow Leopard seems to have broken it -- everytime I run the script,
it
stops, and then exits
Noel Rappin wrote:
I have a Python script that I've been using to communicate back and
forth with iTunes via py-appscript -- it's worked fine for a long
time.
Snow Leopard seems to have broken it -- everytime I run the script, it
stops, and then exits, claiming that one of the commands has time
On 8 Sep, 2009, at 9:49, Kay Gottschalk wrote:
Hi there,
when I try to install appscript, I get the following errors:
What release of OSX are you running? Do you use /usr/bin/python or
some other Python installation (and if the latter, which one)
Ronald
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME
Sean DiZazzo wrote:
On a whim I tried the 0.20.0 version that was released today. To my
surprise, export() has grown a new keyword... timeout!
It's actually been around since the early days, although some older
documentation wasn't as clear about it. Chapter 11 of the appscript
manual li
On a whim I tried the 0.20.0 version that was released today. To my
surprise, export() has grown a new keyword... timeout!
Look like it's solved my problem so far...
Talk about luck. Thanks.
~Sean
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Sean DiZazzo wrote:
> Let me first say thank you. This is my fi
Thanks for the quick reply Rajanikanth.
I ran `sudo easy_install -U macholib==dev` (which I assume is what
Russell intended) and got:
Searching for macholib==dev
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/macholib/
Reading http://undefined.org/python/#macholib
Best match: macholib dev
Downloading http
Hi Daryl,
Try this( It was suggested by Russell):
You might make sure your easy_install and macholib are up to date:
each_install-U macholib==dev
If that fails and tells you to do a selfupdate then do that and try
again.
-- Russell
Thanks,
Rajanikanth
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Dary
I just had the same problem. Did you find a solution? (I don't see
any replies.)
--
Daryl
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Does anybody know why I get this error?
> sudo easy_install appscript
>
> Searching for appscript
> Reading http://pypi.python.
> Jack Jansen wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't be surprised if the root of the problem is with
> > PowerPoint. It started its life as an OS9 application, so if it still
> > thinks it lives in an OS9 world with FSSpecs and colon-separated
> > pathnames, it could be trying to do the conversion to posix pa
Jack Jansen wrote:
> I wouldn't be surprised if the root of the problem is with
> PowerPoint. It started its life as an OS9 application, so if it still
> thinks it lives in an OS9 world with FSSpecs and colon-separated
> pathnames, it could be trying to do the conversion to posix paths
> itself
I wouldn't be surprised if the root of the problem is with PowerPoint.
It started its life as an OS9 application, so if it still thinks it
lives in an OS9 world with FSSpecs and colon-separated pathnames, it
could be trying to do the conversion to posix paths itself. And such a
conversion m
has wrote:
> Bill Janssen wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to write this scrap of Applescript in Python appscript:
> >
> > on run
> > tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
> > set this_item to path of active presentation
> > end tell
> > set unix_item to POSIX path of this_item
Bill Janssen wrote:
I'm trying to write this scrap of Applescript in Python appscript:
on run
tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
set this_item to path of active presentation
end tell
set unix_item to POSIX path of this_item
display dialog of
Bill Janssen wrote:
> I'm trying to write this scrap of Applescript in Python appscript:
>
> on run
> tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
> set this_item to path of active presentation
> end tell
> set unix_item to POSIX path of this_item
> display dia
Ned Deily wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Bill Janssen
> wrote:
> > has wrote:
> > > ...or prevent the OS from automatically upgrading your
> > > python process to a GUI process (which it only does if it knows the
> > > executable is located in an application bundle, e.g. Pyth
On 31 Jan 2009, at 20:18, Bill Janssen wrote:
has wrote:
...or prevent the OS from automatically upgrading your
python process to a GUI process (which it only does if it knows the
executable is located in an application bundle, e.g. Python.app/
Contents/MacOS/python).
Thanks!
I'm not runnin
In article <[email protected]>, Bill Janssen
wrote:
> has wrote:
> > ...or prevent the OS from automatically upgrading your
> > python process to a GUI process (which it only does if it knows the
> > executable is located in an application bundle, e.g. Python.app/
> > Contents/MacOS/pyth
Bill Janssen wrote:
> I'm not running Python.app -- I'm running /usr/bin/python, which if I
> follow the symlinks leads me to
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/python2.5,
> which in turn "file" shows to be a dual-architecture executable, which
> in my case is "Mach-O
has wrote:
> ...or prevent the OS from automatically upgrading your
> python process to a GUI process (which it only does if it knows the
> executable is located in an application bundle, e.g. Python.app/
> Contents/MacOS/python).
Thanks!
I'm not running Python.app -- I'm running /usr/bin/python
Bill Janssen wrote:
We discussed this a bit last year, but with no resolution that I
remember. I've got a situation where a Python program is preventing
logout/shutdown. It's a script that just runs in an endless loop
watching what app I'm working with; when it sees one it knows
(Preview,
M
Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka wrote:
I get this error when trying to install appscript from source on Mac
OS X(using python 2.6.1):
ld: in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local/lib/libPng.dylib,
file is not of required architecture for architecture ppc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
lipo:
In article
<[email protected]>,
Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka wrote:
> hi!
>
> I get this error when trying to install appscript from source on Mac
> OS X(using python 2.6.1):
>
> ld: in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local/lib/libPng.dylib,
> file i
has wrote:
> copy Python.app's executable (.../Python.app/
> Contents/MacOS/Python) to /usr/local/bin/pythonb and use that to run
> your scripts.
Ah! That sounds easy. I'll try it.
> aemreceive's sfba module lets you run an event loop, which you need to
> handle any sort of incoming events, a
Bill Janssen wrote:
I'm having a bit of a problem with a Python script I'm running. It
sits
in a loop and periodically asks "System Events" what's going on, via
appscript. The use of appscript turns it into a "foreground process",
Yes, this is annoying and unnecessary behaviour; the proble
Conan C. Albrecht wrote:
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.
I assume you're referring to BibDesk. I'
Ned Deily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm starting a Python daemon using SystemStarter, and in it I'm using
> > appscript to launch an app (Entourage). I get the following error:
> >
> > CantLaunchApplicationErro
Ned Deily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also note that in 10.4, Apple introduced launchd which is intended to
> replace the various startup mechanisms including SystemStarter. launchd
> includes the capability to define system-wide as well as per-user
> LaunchAgents (triggered by various condit
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'm starting a Python daemon using SystemStarter, and in it I'm using
> appscript to launch an app (Entourage). I get the following error:
>
> CantLaunchApplicationError: CantLaunchApplicationError -606: Application is
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Tönnishoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you please help me to get this right? How do I convert a string to the
> required "unicode_text" type wich is noth
> the python builtin one.
The error message is misleading you. The problem is not the string;
Travis Caldwell wrote:
Not sure if this is user error or a bug, but I can't seem to send
the count command to Word 2008 via appscript.
Word's count command requires an 'each' parameter, e.g.:
app('microsoft word').count(each=k.document)
A number of Carbon apps do require an 'each' paramete
Greetings from San Francisco Bay!
Thanks for looking at this; it turned out that the problem was that I
was running Leopard's X11. My system.log had lots of this:
Jun 18 09:52:43 mymachine System Events[32983]: Unable to find class:
X11Application, exiting
Jun 18 09:52:43 mymachine com.apple.la
Am 2008-06-19 um 19:16 schrieb Bill Janssen:
So, here's another appscript problem:
/Users/wjanssen 2 % python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:16)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
from appscript im
Thanks, this is what I needed to know -- I'm hoping to avoid diving
into the source. I'll download FF 2 and try it out.
> appscript.terminology.dump()
Not sure what you mean here. appscript.terminology doesn't have a
"dump" function...
Bill
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Pytho
> But you can enter raw apple events which is what you want to do.
> See here for and explanation of the brackets and how to enter them:
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/conceptual/ASLR_raw_data.html
Right, thanks, that's helpful. But how do I
Bill Janssen wrote:> But how do I write "<>" in appscript?You need to use the lower-level aem API to construct references/commands using raw AE codes. However, while both APIs are well documented in themselves, it's not currently explained to end users how to combine them in order to work around d
On Jun 18, 2008, at 20:18 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
Thanks, Daniel.
It looks impossible from my perspective and knowledge, maybe someone
smarter has it figured out.
Apparently someone has, from the scrap of Applescript I pointed to
before (OK, here it is again:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/sh
Thanks, Daniel.
> It looks impossible from my perspective and knowledge, maybe someone
> smarter has it figured out.
Apparently someone has, from the scrap of Applescript I pointed to
before (OK, here it is again:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427448).
> Generally, the double an
On Jun 18, 2008, at 19:04 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
I'm finally trying to learn appscript, and I thought I'd write a
little system monitor that goes around to my various open applications
and logs what files/URLs I'm looking at. For Safari, this is easy:
print app('Safari').windows.first.curre
John Ott wrote:
> I am getting file not found errors from appscript.
>
> I manually open my OmniOutliner file Projets.oo3 first then from a
> xterm
> window:
>
> python
> from appscript import *
> oop = app('OmniOutliner Professional')
> pod = oop.documents['Projects.oo3']
>
> A second copy of O
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am getting file not found errors from appscript.
>
> I manually open my OmniOutliner file Projets.oo3 first then from a xterm
> window:
>
> python
> from appscript import *
> oop = app('OmniOutliner Professional')
> pod = o
Am 2008-03-04 um 02:10 schrieb has:
>> Is there any reason why the appscript docs aren't available online?
> The Ruby docs have been up awhile, but the Python and ObjC versions
> are still to do. As with most OSS projects: lack of time/motivation/
> manpower and/or plain laziness - take your pick.
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Is there any reason why the appscript docs aren't available online?
The Ruby docs have been up awhile, but the Python and ObjC versions
are still to do. As with most OSS projects: lack of time/motivation/
manpower and/or plain laziness - take your pick.
> The Hom
Am 2008-02-27 um 21:57 schrieb Ned Deily:
> The macfile module of py-appscript was renamed to mactypes. So, with
> the lastest versions of py-appscript, you'll need to change
> macfile.Alias() to mactypes.Alias(). See the doc files included with
> the py-appscript source download: appscript.so
David Voswinkel wrote:
> But now iam stuck with the task to add a photo to a referenced album.
AFAIK the only way to bring in image files is via the 'open' command,
e.g.:
iphoto.open([Alias('/path/to/image1.jpg'), Alias('/path/to/
image2.jpg')])
To add existing 'photo' objects to a
> You have to use its weird, non-standard 'new album' command (which
> returns a broken reference, btw, so don't use that):
>
> app('iPhoto').new_album(name='New Album')
Thx for that tip. But now iam stuck with the task to add a photo to a
referenced album. I tried all kinds of app.add or
David Voswinkel wrote:
> try to create an new iPhoto album, But cant get it working. Is this
> a bug?
>
>>
> app('iPhoto').make(new=k.regular_album, with_properties={ k.name :
> 'New Album' })
The correct syntax would be:
app('iPhoto').make(
new=k.album,
On 13 Aug 2007, at 18:01, Karsten Wolf wrote:
>>> Accessing this list item yields nothing; AEDesc.data='',
>>> AEDesc.type='tdta'.
>>
>> What does the equivalent AppleScript give you? Appscript should give
>> the same result.
>
> Ok. I've crosschecked with Frontier and AppleScript.
>
> I'm using F
Karsten Wolf wrote:
> I'm new to python & appscript and try to control some FileMaker 9
> databases.
Don't have a copy of FileMaker myself, but will try to help best I can.
> I'd like to handle container fields (CF).
>
> Getting these in appscript is a little more difficult than in other
>
On 22 Feb 2007, at 20:47, Daniel Lord wrote:
> My profile is close except I moved to Python 2.5:
> Macbbok Pro Core 2 Duo, 2.33GHz, 2GB, 10.4.8
>
> cannot reproduce, long pause while iTunes launches though...
OK, thanks. I'm scratching my head; it doesn't seem to be a problem
in appscript itsel
My profile is close except I moved to Python 2.5:
Macbbok Pro Core 2 Duo, 2.33GHz, 2GB, 10.4.8
cannot reproduce, long pause while iTunes launches though...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 22 11:44:38P [ 1 ]
~/ python
Python 2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build
Christian Bird wrote:
> I just found out about appscript and am attempting to use it on my
> macbook pro (OS X 10.4.8 and python 2.4.3). I installed appscript,
> but the following is what I get when I try to test it out. [...]
> The same error appears regardless of which
> app I try to control (
Hi,
Am 22.02.2007 um 05:31 schrieb Christian Bird:
> RuntimeError: Can't get terminology for application
> (aem.Application(u'/Applications/iTunes.app')): CommandError -600: no
> eligible process with specified descriptor
Error -600 means the process isn't running. Some applications launch
wh
Has,Thank you. Unfortunately, I have a list of UIDs for the todos I want to modify, so I think the best I can do is:for uid in uid_list: todo = [ t for t in app('iCal').calendars.todos.filter( its.uid == uid ).get() if t != k.MissingValue ][0] todo.stamp_date.set( datetime.datetime.today() )
On 8 Aug 2006, at 01:49, Marcin Komorowski wrote:
> I guess when I get to updating individual values in selected todos
> records, I will have to use a relatively slow request-per-update
> method. Is there a trick to update a field of a todo with a given
> uid in a single request?
You can s
Thanks Has, this definitely did the trick.
I guess when I get to updating individual values in selected todos
records, I will have to use a relatively slow request-per-update
method. Is there a trick to update a field of a todo with a given
uid in a single request?
Thanks,
Marcin
On 6-Aug
Marcin Komorowski wrote:
> I am trying to generate a python internal structure (a dictionary of
> dictionaries) with a copy of all todo data from iCal. I got it to
> work using the following code:
> [...]
> The problem is that this appears to execute painstakingly slowly.
Apple event IPC is fair
Am 2006-08-06 um 16:57 schrieb Marcin Komorowski:
> I am trying to generate a python internal structure (a dictionary
> of dictionaries) with a copy of all todo data from iCal. I got it
> to work using the following code:
>
> The problem is that this appears to execute painstakingly slowly.
Nicholas Riley wrote:
> I agree - if the app quits, it should stay quit. Sometimes when I'm
> trying to abort a script I quit an app that's being controlled, and to
> see it relaunch over and over and over again... aaargh.
OK. Plan is that:
1. run() and launch() will be allowed to relaunch an a
On Aug 3, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Dethe Elza wrote:
> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
>> On Aug 3, 2006, at 7:08 PM, has wrote:
>>> p.s. If anyone'd like to help me out a bit, I'd really like to get
>>> all the manuals into the standard Python documentation format
>>> now. So
>>> if you're familiar with th
Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2006, at 7:08 PM, has wrote:
>> p.s. If anyone'd like to help me out a bit, I'd really like to get
>> all the manuals into the standard Python documentation format now. So
>> if you're familiar with the tools and would like to have a go then
>> let me know - it'
On Aug 3, 2006, at 7:08 PM, has wrote:
Hi folks,
Getting appscript prepared for the next release (only a couple away
from beta now), and wondering if anyone has preferences on the
following:
1. If a local application quits while a script is using it, either
unexpectedly or because the client
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 06:08:26PM +0100, has wrote:
> So I'm more inclined towards the latter, but would like to know what
> others think.)
I agree - if the app quits, it should stay quit. Sometimes when I'm
trying to abort a script I quit an app that's being controlled, and to
see it relaunch o
Thanks, folks, I thought I might have missed something. I appreciate the suggestions and comments. You guys are great!- RobOn Jul 20, 2006, at 9:33 AM, has wrote:Laurent Pierron wrote: Try that : os.system('osascript -e \'launch application "textedit"\'') Yeah, calling AS is a last-ditch option,
Laurent Pierron wrote:
> Try that :
>
> os.system('osascript -e \'launch application "textedit"\'')
Yeah, calling AS is a last-ditch option, but I'm hoping someone'll
know how to do it via the Python standard library or an OS call.
(It'd be terribly ignominious for appscript to have to
Le 20 juil. 06, à 16:31, has a écrit :
> Kevin Walzer wrote:
>
>> import os
>>
>> os.system('open -a TextEdit.app')
>
> Still ends up sending a run event, unfortunately. The goal is to
> launch the app without it opening an empty document, as 'launch app
> "TextEdit"' does.
>
Try that :
Kevin Walzer wrote:
> import os
>
> os.system('open -a TextEdit.app')
Still ends up sending a run event, unfortunately. The goal is to
launch the app without it opening an empty document, as 'launch app
"TextEdit"' does.
Ta,
has
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has wrote:
> Robert Stephenson wrote:
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>> As far as I can see, appscript lacks an equivalent of Applescript's
>> launch verb, which opens an app without running it (useful for apps
>> like Textedit or Keynote that create default documents when th
Robert Stephenson wrote:
> As far as I can see, appscript lacks an equivalent of Applescript's
> launch verb, which opens an app without running it (useful for apps
> like Textedit or Keynote that create default documents when they
> run). Did I miss something, or how can you open a file wi
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