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Re: R?p: old AppleWorks script failing under 10.5
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Re: R?p: old AppleWorks script failing under 10.5


  • Subject: Re: R?p: old AppleWorks script failing under 10.5
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:40:17 +0100

Matt Neuburg wrote:

In my opinion, you should file a bug with Apple on AppleScript 10.5 for
making you do this. The backwards incompatibility that requires this sort of
song-and-dance is unacceptable.


As a general FYI, appscript gives you more control over the way that text is packed into Apple events, allowing you to deal with such 'awkward' applications much more easily. For example, Python appscript packs values of type 'str' as typeChar (your system's primary encoding, e.g. MacRoman) and values of type 'unicode' as typeUnicodeText. Ruby and ObjC appscript provide methods for specifying the AE type used (the default is typeUnicodeText). Plus appscript is completely open and highly hackable, allowing its behaviour to be customised even further if desired.

HTH

has
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Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC:
http://appscript.sourceforge.net

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