the short explanation about Preview.app not playing well is that it
has no dictionary or built-in scripting functions, but does play well
with System Events, in that it is wired to interact properly. Safari
has both a rich scripting environment and the System Event interface.
(System Events is handy for allowing interaction with java applets
running inside the Safari browser that know nothing about OSX or
Applescript. Safari makes all the objects and strings available to
System Events. Pretty cool.)
The Rev dictionary has a couple functions that make paths easy
Syntax: revMacFromUnixPath(unixPathname[,convertOSX])
from "/" to ":" and converts the special root drive naming
Syntax: revUnixFromMacPath(macPathname[,convertOSX])
from ":" to "/" and converts the special root drive naming
Hope this helps
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
On Mar 12, 2009, at 4:10 AM, Jim Sims wrote:
Works slick for Keynote.
A current issue I'm up against has been getting all this to also
work with Preview.app, for some reason Preview seems to not play
well with applescript. Seems that System Events has a better shot at
my goal.
So, I changed direction a bit and am now going with:
tell application "System Events"
get name of every window of application process "Preview"
end tell
return the result
Doing the above seems to require enabling access for assistive
devices, but that is not a problem.
Thanks Bernd
On Mar 12, 2009, at 11:55 AM, BNig wrote:
tell application "Keynote"
set docsPathes to the path of every slideshow
set PathOutput to ""
repeat with echItm in docsPathes
set PathOutput to PathOutput & echItm & return as string
end repeat
-- take out the last return
set PathOutput to characters 1 through -2 of PathOutput as string
return PathOutput
end tell
a return delimited list of the pathes, if a slideshow is open which
is not
saved yet it returns missing value. on system 10.5.6 it returns the
posix
form of the pathes (/xxx/xxx), older versions might return the mac-
style
(xxx:xxx)
To return mulitple lists to Rev you can concatenate them into one
list and
take them apart on the rev side or do multiple applescript calls.
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