[Pythonmac-SIG] AppScript code

[Paul Davis]

Paul Davis wrote:

> has wrote:
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>> Paul Davis wrote:
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>>> First, I'd like to thank Has for the info on those errors.  I kind of
>>> like to think of writing AppleScript as walking blindfolded in a pitch
>>> dark room and constantly bumping into the furniture.
>>>   
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>> To be fair to AppleScript, these sorts of problems are the 
>> applications' fault, whether for implementing buggy or badly designed 
>> scripting support, providing inadequate user documentation, or both. 
>> Not even appscript can save you from that, I'm afraid. ;)
>>
>> Still, I'll see about making appscript insert more meaningful generic 
>> descriptions for the default NS...Error messages in future; should 
>> help a little.
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>>> I've posted a working version of a utility to import SQL schema into
>>> OmniGraffle.  Just thought I'd spread around some of the love.
>>>
>>> http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~pjdavis/DBGraffle4/
>>>   
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>> Sweet. One thing: the 'DBGraffle4.scpt' file seems to be scragged. I 
>> couldn't get it to open correctly in Script Editor; from the raw data 
>> it looks like it might be an applet, but it wouldn't open in SE as a 
>> .app either.
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>> Re. spreading the love, you thought of building a standalone version 
>> with py2app and posting it on VersionTracker, etc.?
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>> HTH
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>> has
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> Fixed the applescript on the website.  It doesn't actually do anything 
> other than collect a couple settings and start the python script.
>
> I've been reading a bit about this py2app business.  The first thing 
> I'll need to figure out is how to make some sort of GUI for it.  What 
> is the easiest package for something like this?  If it doesn't take 
> too long this could be a very interesting facelift.
>
> I'm looking for the easiest way to mimic the functionality of the 
> AppleScript DBGraffle4.scpt.  All it does is throw up a couple dialog 
> boxes for user input and then runs the command.  If I could get a 
> single window to do this in python, thats probably what I'd go for.
>
> Anyhow, time to work
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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