Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Scripting Bridge problems

[Eloy D. <elo...@gm...>]

Hehehe :)

Np,
Eloy

On Dec 15, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Allison Newman wrote:

> 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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