Re: Sending a list of path strings to the Finder via Scripting Bridge
Re: Sending a list of path strings to the Finder via Scripting Bridge
- Subject: Re: Sending a list of path strings to the Finder via Scripting Bridge
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 22:58:45 +1000
On 26/05/2012, at 10:25 PM, Peter wrote:
> On the other hand I have never seen/never tried to call AppleScript from Cocoa in AppleScriptObjC terms - if this wording makes sense at all. I don't remember reading about this in your book, which focuses of course on accessing Cocoa from AppleScript.
It's not in the book, but it's pretty simple. You just need to stick to passing objects of the main classes (NSString, NSArray, NSNumber, NSDictionary, NSData) and coercing them in the receiving handler. So in this case you might have an AS "class" with a handler like this:
on selectItemsInFinder_(arrayOfPaths)
set arrayOfPaths to arrayOfPaths as list -- coerce from pseudo-pointer to AS object
set fileList to {}
repeat with aPath in arrayOfPaths
set end of fileList to aPath as POSIX file
end repeat
tell application "Finder" to select fileList
end selectItemsInFinder_
And you can call it as either a class or instance method:
NSArray *array = *paths*
[ASClassInstance selectItemsInFinder:array];
or:
[[ASClassName alloc] init] selectItemsInFinder:array];
or:
[ASClassName selectItemsInFinder:array];
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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