[Pythonmac-SIG] Applescript Confusion?

Bill Bedford billb@mousa.demon.co.uk
Tue, 5 Mar 2002 12:10:49 +0000


At 12:29 pm +0100 05/03/02, Jack Jansen wrote:

>On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 08:46 , Bill Bedford wrote:
>>
>>  	import Freehand
>>  	import StdSuites
>>  	fh = Freehand.Freehand(start=1, timeout=10*60*60)
>>  	std = StdSuites.StdSuites()
>>  	fh.activate()
>>  	fh.open(StdSuites.file(file +'.art'), Dialogs=0)
>
>If all works as intended Freehand.Freehand should already use the 
>StdSuites as a base class, and start=1 implies activate(),


The code above is part of a bigger script where activate() is needed -- sorry

>so the following should work:
>
>	import Freehand
>
>	fh = Freehand.Freehand(start=1, timeout=10*60*60)
>	fh.open(Freehand.file(file +'.art'), Dialogs=0)

Mmmm

>>>  import Freehand
>>>  fh = Freehand.Freehand(start=1, timeout=10*60*60)
>>>  fh.open(Freehand.file('Holkham:Coaches:BRW:BWK8003 Conflat L'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'file'
>>>
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Bill Bedford

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