[Pythonmac-SIG] aeve and Safari

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 14, 2004, at 7:00 AM, John Weeks wrote:

> Trying to see how aeve handles the scripting of Safari and compare
> it to AppScripting, I am having problems figuring out how to call
> "do JavaScript" using aeve as well.
>
> I have a little program that works fine:
>
>     import aeve
>     saf = aeve.talkto('com.apple.safari')
>     from aeve.Applications import Safari
>     newdoc = saf.make(new=Safari.document)
>     newdoc.URL = "http://web.lexis-nexis.com/"
>
> Looking at the aeve-generated dictionary for Safari, I tried to
> implement the AppleScript:
>
>     set the load_status to (do JavaScript "document.readyState" in 
> document 1)
>
> as:
>
>     import aeve
>     saf = aeve.talkto('com.apple.safari')
>     from aeve.Applications import Safari
>     newdoc = saf.make(new=Safari.document)
>     newdoc.URL = "http://web.lexis-nexis.com/"
>     load_status = newdoc.do_JavaScript("document.readyState")

Try this:

import aeve
saf = aeve.talkto('com.apple.safari')
from aeve.Applications import Safari
newdoc = saf.make(new=Safari.document)
newdoc.URL = "http://web.lexis-nexis.com/"
load_status = saf.do_JavaScript("document.readyState", 
in_=saf.documents[1])

-bob