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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Matthias Klose
  • Date: 2009-03-23 00:01:27 UTC
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20090323000127-5fstfxju4ufrhthq
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
 
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        <title>Controlling other Applications from MacPython</title>
 
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<h1>Controlling other Applications from MacPython</h1>
 
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<p>Python has a fairly complete implementation of the Open Scripting
 
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Architecure (OSA, also commonly referred to as AppleScript), allowing
 
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you to control scriptable applications from your Python program,
 
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and with a fairly pythonic interface. This piece of
 
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Python:</p>
 
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<blockquote><pre><tt>
 
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import Finder
 
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f = Finder.Finder()
 
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print f.get(f.window(1).name)
 
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</tt></pre></blockquote>
 
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<p>is identical to the following piece of AppleScript:</p>
 
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<blockquote><pre><tt>
 
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tell application "Finder"
 
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        get name of window 1
 
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end tell
 
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</tt></pre></blockquote>
 
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<p>To send AppleEvents to an application you must first create the Python
 
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modules interfacing to the terminology of the application (what
 
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<tt>Script Editor</tt> calls the "Dictionary"). Use the IDE menu command
 
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<tt>File-&gt;Generate OSA Suite...</tt> for this. For more control run</p>
 
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<blockquote><tt>
 
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pythonw .../Lib/plat-mac/gensuitemodule.py --help
 
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<p>from a terminal window.</p>
 
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<h2>Creating a scriptable application in Python</h2>
 
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You can also create a scriptable application in Python, but this is not
 
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very well documented. For Carbon
 
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applications you should look at the <tt>MiniAEFrame</tt> module.
 
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