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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
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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
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classes and thus gives us direct assess to all the methods in the aete.
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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
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SIGNATURE is the target application
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TIMEOUT is in ticks
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and IGNORING is a boolean and determines whether the script waits for a reply
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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)ƒ.Property()
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All applescript event, class and property names are capitalised to
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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
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dictionaries, which represent all the events, properties and enumeration in
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the aete. (the fourth dictionary, comparisons, has never been implemented
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in applescript so I have not used it) It also reads the applescript aeut
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and adds any suites that are missing (ie where the application author has
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set his suite to inherit from the aeut.) and the applescript suite, which
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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,
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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
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distribution. Some methods and classes have been enhanced others are
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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
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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
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made faster by rewriting the aete parser in getaete and/or by putting in
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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
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in python.
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Probably a few other things I haven't thought of yet.
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