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Scripting implementation - accepting/returning ae records?
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Scripting implementation - accepting/returning ae records?


  • Subject: Scripting implementation - accepting/returning ae records?
  • From: Jim Correia <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 23:51:51 -0400

First a couple of meta-questions.

Is this list more appropriate than applescript-implementors for appkit scripting questions?

Is there a more complete source of documentation? The current scripting docs are somewhat spartan.

Now the real (first) questions:

What cocoa data types are "bridged" to applescript data types? NSNumber<foo>, NSArray, NSString seem to be. Is there a complete list somewhere that I've overlooked?

How do I return a record from a command handler or from a property handler (KVC method)?

If I were writing to the metal, I'd just build up an AERecord, stuff it in the direct object of the reply, and be done with it. How do I return a record from Cocoa? In a simple test case returning an NSDictionary (even when they keys were NSNumber (unsigned longs)) returned a null answer with no errors).

How do I accept a record? (I have done no experimentation here yet - I see that the create command accepts a record for the property data and declares it as NSDictionary, but the implementation is opaque and automatically calls the KVC methods. I know what the record looks like going in, but I don't know what the dictionary looks like after Cocoa has massaged it.)

Thanks,
Jim
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