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| PythonScript |
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| v0.5 beta 1 24/04/98 |
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| author: Bill Bedford, <billb@mousa.demon.co.uk> |
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| This suite of modules is a first attempt at writing a more user friendly |
| python/appleevent interface. The files in the suite are: |
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| PythonScript |
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| Loads three dictionaries generated by getaete into __dict__'s of three |
| classes and thus gives us direct assess to all the methods in the aete. |
| Each method now contains all the information needed to build apple events. |
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| The general usage is |
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| >>>PythonScript.PsScript(SIGNATURE, TIMEOUT, IGNORING) |
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| where |
| SIGNATURE is the target application |
| TIMEOUT is in ticks |
| and IGNORING is a boolean and determines whether the script waits for a reply |
| from the target before going on to the next event |
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| >>>PythonScript.PyScript(Event, Object, keywdarg1..., keywdarg2...etc) |
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| Object is a appleevent object specifier and is of the form |
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| PythonScript.PsClass.Class1(arg).Class2(arg).Property() |
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| All applescript event, class and property names are capitalised to |
| distinguish them from python methods. |
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| getaete |
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| Reads the aete of the target application and returns it as a list of three |
| dictionaries, which represent all the events, properties and enumeration in |
| the aete. (the fourth dictionary, comparisons, has never been implemented |
| in applescript so I have not used it) It also reads the applescript aeut |
| and adds any suites that are missing (ie where the application author has |
| set his suite to inherit from the aeut.) and the applescript suite, which |
| gives the language methods |
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| printaete |
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| Produces a text file with the aete set out in a human readable form, |
| similar to the Open Dictionary command in the applescript editor. |
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| baetools, baepack, baetypes |
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| These are direct equivalents of aetools, aepack, aetypes in the standard |
| distribution. Some methods and classes have been enhanced others are |
| redundant |
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| PyScriptTest, testeudora |
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| A couple of test scripts. Testeudora is an updated version of the one in |
| the standard distribution. |
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| Still To Do (in no particular order) |
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| These modules are much slower than applescript. I believe they could be |
| made faster by rewriting the aete parser in getaete and/or by putting in |
| some form of persistent storage so that the class dictionaries can be cached. |
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| The parsing of the appleevent replies need rewriting. |
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| Support for the use of scripting additions. |
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| A Python aeut needs to be written, much of the applescript one is redundant |
| in python. |
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| Probably a few other things I haven't thought of yet. |