Re: [MACTCL] Making a Tk app scriptable via AppleScript

[Kevin W. <kw...@co...>]

On 8/9/09 6:30 PM, Youness Alaoui wrote:
> ahhh.. I should really get used to Reply all instead of just Reply...
> Kevin, here's my previous answer to you which went to Philip instead of
> the mailing list... (the offlist talk he mentioned) :
> Hi,
>
> aMSN supports AppleScript events, but it looks like Tk itself doesn't
> support it correctly, it gives an error : 27:53: execution error: aMSN
> got an error: AEDoScriptHandler: invalid script type 'txtu', must be
> 'alis' or 'TEXT' (-1770)
> You can read more info on how we fixed it here :
> http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6828
> Basically, we use tclAE which seems to work fine.. however, all the
> available binaries for tclAE are version 2.0, which crashes with tcl/tk
> 8.5.. but the SVN version of tclAE has a fix for that.. I've compiled a
> universal binary for tclAE, you can find it here :
> http://amsn.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/amsn/trunk/amsn/utils/macosx/tclAE2.0.4/
> and we use this script here :
> http://amsn.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/amsn/trunk/amsn/utils/macosx/applescript/
> in order to make it work correctly... aMSN uses the default standalone
> Wish shell bundle and we didn't modify anything in the Info.plist for it
> to work...
> Hope that helps.
> KaKaRoTo
>

Thanks for the suggestion...I'll check these out.


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