[Pythonmac-SIG] Using appscript for GUI interaction, button click

[Charles Miller]

Yes, that worked, thanks.  Also, thanks for the advice to use  
ASTranslate.  I've had no formal idea how to do the translation from  
apple script to appscript and so mostly just guess and use common  
sense, which obviously doesn't always work!  Thanks again!!!

Charlie


On Sep 13, 2009, at 12:52 PM, has wrote:

> Charles Miller wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to perform the following applescript with the appscript  
>> Python module:
>>
>> tell application "System Events"
>> 	tell process "Preview" to click button "OK" of every window
>> end tell
>
> If you're not sure how to translate an AppleScript command to the  
> equivalent appscript syntax, ASTranslate is your friend:
>
> app(u'System  
> Events').processes[u'Preview'].windows.buttons[u'OK'].click()
>
>
>> import appscript
>> appscript.app('System  
>> Events').processes['Preview'].windows[1].buttons[1].click()
>>
>> but I get the error:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>> File "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/appscript/reference.py", line  
>> 492, in __call__
>> appscript.reference.CommandError: Command failed:
>> 		OSERROR: -609
>> 		MESSAGE: Connection is invalid.
>> 		COMMAND: app(u'/System/Library/CoreServices/System  
>> Events.app').processes['Preview'].windows[1].buttons[1].click()
>
>
> Error -609 means either the target application unexpectedly quit  
> while handling the event, or the command didn't complete within the  
> allotted timeout period (which should be error -1712, but the Apple  
> Event Manager sometimes returns the wrong code). So does the  
> original AppleScript work? If not, the problem is in what you're  
> trying to do. If it does, then see if the ASTranslate-based  
> translation works.
>
> HTH
>
> has
>
> -- 
> Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC:
> http://appscript.sourceforge.net
>
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