Re: [F-Script-talk] Bug? Multi-messaging gives different result

[Tommy S. <TO...@HE...>]

On 13 Jul 2008, at 18:33, Philippe Mougin wrote:

> Le 13 juil. 08 à 16:55, Tommy Sundström a écrit :
>
>> I've encountered an problem when using Scripting Bridge to control  
>> MindManager. (F-script 2.0 alpha 4) First some setup code:
>>
>> mindManager := SBApplication applicationWithBundleIdentifier:  
>> 'com.mindjet.mindmanager.7'
>> d := mindManager documents objectWithName: 'Applescript, Python och  
>> andra sätt att styra macen'
>>
>> Then if I do like this:
>>
>> > (d topics) task
>>
>> I get a list of SBObjects, like this one: <SBObject @0xbe16a0: task  
>> of MindManagerTopic id "3CABF503-13D3-487B-BA14-7E000E6AA2B7" of  
>> MindManagerDocument "Mindmap" of application "MindManager" (1263)>
>>
>> But, if I do like this:
>>
>> > (d topics at:1) task
>>
>> I get a MindManagerTask object, like this one: <MindManagerTask  
>> @0xbd2120: task of MindManagerTopic 1 of MindManagerDocument  
>> "Mindmap" of application "MindManager" (1263)>
>>
>> I'm a F-script newbee, but am I correct in assuming that these two  
>> operations are supposed to result in the same type of objects?
>
> In most situations, this is correct. When using the Scripting  
> Bridge, however, what these two operations are supposed to result in  
> are "equivalent objects" (i.e., objects that will exhibit the same  
> behavior, at the application semantic level, when used further).

In this case the objects are not equivalent, since the first version  
will not accept a percentComplete message, while the second one will.

(It's however easy to make an workaround using a loop to extract all  
objects in the MindManagerTask format.)

/Tommy