Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Python as an AppleScript Replacement?

[Jack J. <Jac...@or...>]

Taking this over to pythonmac-sig too, in the hope someone knows the 
solution.

On zondag, maa 2, 2003, at 10:29 Europe/Amsterdam, Donovan Preston 
wrote:
[talking about gensuitemodule]
> 1) It currently asks you to select an application with a Carbon file 
> picker. The Carbon file picker exposed by python requires a 
> type/creator mask, and won't let you pick application bundles.
>
> 2) It currently opens the resource fork of the application you chose 
> and reads the binary data off disk, which it then parses to discover 
> the english names and corresponding four character codes.
>
> The solution to these problems is to instead send the 'ascr' 'gdte' 
> event directly to the application you wish to create a python module 
> for, by addressing the application's four character code.

I would love to do this in gensuitemodule, but there's bits and pieces 
I don't know. Maybe someone can enlighten me?

1. Where is the ascr/gdte described? What is the return value, just raw 
AEUT/AETE data, or is it somehow encoded in OSA objects?
2. It appears there's a higher level interface too, because if I do 
"get dictionary" in the script editor some applications are indeed 
fired up, but some are not. So, it seems that sometimes the ascr/gdte 
event is used to get the dictionary, but sometimes it's grabbed from 
the resource fork. At least, it seems that way...
3. Is there an API to get the "pick application" dialog that script 
editor puts up when you do a get dictionary? The way it seems to find 
scriptable applications all over the place I get the impression it 
works together with launch services or something...

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