[Pythonmac-SIG] AppleEvent examples

[Bill Bedford]

At 5:29 pm +0200 12/08/02, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
>Do you think you could add something to the findertools module that 
>uses objects? Because that's the bit that *I* wouldn't mind having a 
>manual for, I always forget how to say "set font of word 2 of 
>paragraph 3 of window "Foo" to "Times Roman"" in Python.

The way I remember it is

Commands in applescript are methods of the application class in python.
Properties in applescript are classes of the application module in python

Which has always seemed to me to be a bit counter intuitive

So your example for application 'App' would be

ap = App.App()
ap.set(App.font(App.word(2, App.paragraph(3, App.window("Foo")))), 
'to'='Times Roman')

That's assuming that 'font', 'word', 'paragraph' and 'window' are all 
classes of App. For some applications this would not be true and the 
classes have to be called from Standard Suites.


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Bill Bedford

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