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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.
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