[Pythonmac-SIG] appscript docs

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2008-03-04 um 02:10 schrieb has:

>> Is there any reason why the appscript docs aren't available online?
> The Ruby docs have been up awhile, but the Python and ObjC versions
> are still to do. As with most OSS projects: lack of time/motivation/
> manpower and/or plain laziness - take your pick.

I wonder if I should publish them at my site, together with  
dictionaries of some applications...
(But I can't promise to always update to the latest version.)

>> It would be nice if it would explain how to set TextEdit's
>> document.text to unicode text - I didn't find a way.
>> Later: AARRGH - it works from the shell (simply using unicode
>> objects), but not from within PyCrust.
>> So there's a dependency from Python's environment - can't tell which
>> exactly.
> Doesn't sound like an appscript problem, but I'm not familiar with
> PyCrust so can't help you there.

Of course. I guess the problem's with wxPython's keyboard input.

>> * in 06_classesandenums.html:
>>
>> app('Finder').home.get(type=k.file_url)
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<input>", line 1, in ?
>>  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/
>> python2.4/site-packages/appscript-0.18.1-py2.4-macosx-10.3-fat.egg/
>> appscript/reference.py", line 391, in __call__
>>    raise TypeError, 'Unknown keyword argument %r.' % name
>> TypeError: Unknown keyword argument 'type'.
>
> Should be 'resulttype', not 'type'. Plus the creaky old Finder doesn't
> seem to recognise the file_url type, so you have to ask it for an
> alias or file_ref instead. Fixed now for 0.19.0; thanks.

thanks

>> See the appscript website?? There's not too much information on
>> anything...
>
> <cough> This material is currently sitting unfinished on my HD, and
> has been for about the last year or so. (Curse your much-too-sharp
> eyes for finally spotting its absence!)

I'm a typesetter - sharp eyes are my professional illness ;-)

> I am hoping to get some
> website updates done this week (in-between a million other things), so
> will see if I can get at least some of it up Real Soon Now.

No hurry - I get no time for programming for the next few weeks  
anyway...


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