Re: API to determine a list of installed scriptable applications
Re: API to determine a list of installed scriptable applications
- Subject: Re: API to determine a list of installed scriptable applications
- From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:47:45 +0100
On 3 Apr 2011, at 13:35, Peter Lübke wrote:
>
> Am 02.04.2011 um 11:56 schrieb email@hidden:
>
>> Is there an API to determine a list of installed scriptable applications?
>>
>> Such a list is displayed by the AppleScript Editor menu item Open Dictionary...
>>
>> Application bundles can be queried for using MDQuery and the scriptability of a given application can be be determined.
>> I don't think that ASE uses this approach as its existence long predates Spotlight etc.
>>
>> Also the ASE list includes items that have not been previously launched.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jonathan Mitchell
>
> The list of the applications shown in AppleScript Editor menu item Open Dictionary... is stored in a plist file:
> home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScriptEditor2.plist (key: "LibraryApplications").
>
Interesting suggestion but..
On OS X 10.6.6 the LibraryApplications key is absent.
I would also prefer a more direct method than querying another app's preferences file.
> I think the reason you see items that haven't been previously launched is that these are Apple Applications / Additions that might already be in the plist when the OS is installed.
> Maybe you can use these as a starting point and add items to your own .plist file as you or your users found more scriptable apps?
>
> Just out of interest: how do you determine scriptability of an application without launching it?
>
(* applescript *)
tell the application "Finder"
set myApp to the application file "Mail" in the folder "Applications" in the startup disk
if has scripting terminology of myApp then
return "scriptable "
else
return "not scriptable "
end if
end tell
or one can query the application bundle for the .scriptsuite or .sdef resource files.
Regards
Jonathan Mitchell
Developer
Mugginsoft LLP
http://www.mugginsoft.com_______________________________________________
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