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

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

Hi Daniel,

On 8/17/09 12:48 PM, Daniel A. Steffen wrote:


> patch attached that fixes this for me and also fixes the other option
> of passing an alias to a script file, i.e.
>      tell application "Wish"
>          do script ("HD:some:path:to:x.tcl" as alias)
>      end tell
>
> please verify

Patch applied OK and Tk builds fine, I see the sdef in the app bundle. 
Not sure about the output of this script:

tell application 
"/Users/kevin/tcl-tk-86/embedded/Applications/Utilities/Wish.app"
	activate
	do script "info patchlevel"
	quit
end tell

The output of this is "missing value." Not what I expected. Am I doing 
something wrong in sending the Tcl command?

>
>>> as far as a replacement for 'aete' is concerned, we will definitely
>>> need a .sdef for TkAqua Cocoa to replicate the old functionality,
>>> contributions by you or Philip much appreciated...
>> I was just playing around with this today, using SDEF Editor--I just
>> extracted the .rsrc file from an older build of Wish and converted it. Would
>> the attached work?
>
> yup, seems to work fine, thanks, integrated in patch
>

I see the sdef in the app bundle, thanks. I do notice this blows away 
the previous Cocoa-standard dictionary (standard suite and text 
suite)--is this a problem? Not sure how relevant these things are to a 
Tk app, especially since basic Apple events are supported in 
TkMacOSXHLEvents.c.

Once this is final, can you please commit this to de-carbon-85 as well?

Thanks,
Kevin

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