Re: Send events to AppleScript
Re: Send events to AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Send events to AppleScript
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:34:36 +0000
Re: Send events to AppleScript
Is it at all possible to have an application send actions to a
particular AppleScript script,
Yes. See NSAppleScript/OSAKit/Carbon OSA APIs. There's a sample
project in the objc-appscript repository, CallAppleScriptHandler, that
provides a simple demonstration of calling script handlers from ObjC,
using appscript's AEM APIs to simplify the process of converting Cocoa
objects to/from NSAppleEventDescriptors.
or set that script as a delegate of that application
Depends exactly what you mean by 'delegation'. The OSA API provides a
whole bunch of arcane selectors and callbacks for two-way intra-
process integration between application and scripts, but whether it's
appropriate/how to use it will depend on exactly what you're trying to
achieve.
or to have an AppleScript as a means of communication
between two applications (one of which is mine, and the other isn't)?
Yes, although if you don't need the IPC code to be user-configurable,
you'll likely find it simpler to use an ObjC-Apple event bridge:
either Scripting Bridge, which is included in 10.5+, or objc-
appscript, which you'll need to build yourself, but is more capable,
compatible and portable, and doesn't obfuscate everything to heck.
HTH
has
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Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC:
http://appscript.sourceforge.net
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