Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Scripting Bridge problems

[Allison N. <dem...@ma...>]

 Pfft!  Yeah, sure, I *could* do it that way, but where's the challenge?  Where's the call to that human need to create, design, embellish!

Thanks Eloy, that's a much nicer solution - and as a bonus, it brings the browser window to the foreground, and uses the preferred browser for the system :-)

Alli

On Monday, December 15, 2008, at 03:21PM, "Eloy Duran" <elo...@gm...> wrote:
>Hi Alli,
>
>Not sure if this helps you out or not,
>but if all you want to do is to open a new window with a specific URL  
>you should use:
>
>NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace.openURL()
>
>Eloy
>
>On Dec 15, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Allison Newman wrote:
>
>> Oh, never mind, I figured it out....  You have to add the object to  
>> the application before modifying it's properties - apparently the  
>> ScriptingBridge class of the object isn't really resolved until the  
>> object is added to the application container.  So this works:
>>
>> document_class = @safari.classForScriptingClass('document')
>> document = document_class.alloc.init
>> @safari.documents << document
>> document.URL = url
>>
>>
>> Alli
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, December 15, 2008, at 01:36PM, "Allison Newman" <dem...@ma... 
>> > wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm having a few problems scripting Safari from Ruby, and I'm  
>>> wondering if anyone else has had any problems/found solutions.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to open a URL in Safari.  My first attempt looked like  
>>> this (please excuse any typos, I'm not on the computer that has the  
>>> source code....)
>>>
>>> require 'osx/cocoa'
>>> include OSX
>>>
>>> OSX.require_framework 'ScriptingBridge'
>>>
>>> url = "http://www.blah.com/MyAccount.htm"
>>>
>>> @safari =  
>>> SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier("com.apple.Safari")
>>> # so far, so good!
>>>
>>> # The following is no good, this gives me a document_class of  
>>> SBProxyByClass
>>> document_class = @safari.classForScriptingClass('document')
>>> document = document_class.alloc.init
>>> document.URL = url
>>> @safari.documents << document
>>>
>>> # the following works, but only if Safari already has a page open -  
>>> it changes this page to the new URL, which is not what I want to  
>>> do, I want to open either a new window, or a new tab.  It also  
>>> fails if there is no document already open, as document is set to nil
>>> document = @safari.documents.last
>>> # document has a class of OSX::SafariDocument
>>> document.URL = url
>>>
>>> #The following does not work, again, the class isn't right...
>>> document = OSX::SafariDocument.alloc.init
>>> # document.class = SBProxyByClass
>>> document.URL = url
>>> @safari.documents << document
>>>
>>>
>>> So, I'm a little puzzled.  Does anyone know how to do this properly?
>>>
>>> Alli
>>>
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