PythonScript
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v0.5 beta 1 24/04/98
author: Bill Bedford, <billb@mousa.demon.co.uk>
This suite of modules is a first attempt at writing a more user friendly
python/appleevent interface. The files in the suite are:
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.
The general usage is
>>>PythonScript.PsScript(SIGNATURE, TIMEOUT, IGNORING)
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
>>>PythonScript.PyScript(Event, Object, keywdarg1..., keywdarg2...etc)
Object is a appleevent object specifier and is of the form
PythonScript.PsClass.Class1(arg).Class2(arg)ƒ.Property()
All applescript event, class and property names are capitalised to
distinguish them from python methods.
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
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.
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
PyScriptTest, testeudora
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A couple of test scripts. Testeudora is an updated version of the one in
the standard distribution.
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.
The parsing of the appleevent replies need rewriting.
Support for the use of scripting additions.
A Python aeut needs to be written, much of the applescript one is redundant
in python.
Probably a few other things I haven't thought of yet.
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