Glad to hear. And I definitely recommend Neuburg's book.
-Jeff
On Jun 25, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
> Indeed, that works! And I thought I'd tried that and gotten an error, but my
> syntax must have been wrong.
>
> Many thanks, Jeff. It's such a relief to be able to move on that I won't even
> bother to dope-slap myself. One of these days I'll read Matt Neuburg's book,
> but for now... I'll move on.
>
> --Andy
>
> On Jun 25, 2011, at 8:18 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
>> Hi Andy.
>>
>> It seems that the indirection confuses AppleScript, and it doesn't know
>> which dictionary to use. Is there a reason you don't use the following more
>> simple code?
>>
>> tell application id "com.yourcompany.TrivialScriptable"
>>
>> That works better in my testing.
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>>
>> On Jun 25, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
>>
>>> This has been bedeviling me all day. As an AppleScript novice I suspect --
>>> I *hope* -- I'm missing something trivial.
>>>
>>> I have a scriptable app I want to write AppleScript that targets the app
>>> via its bundle identifier rather than its name. But when I do what seems
>>> the obvious thing, I get a -1708 error, which I believe means the app
>>> doesn't understand the command I'm giving it.
>>>
>>> I wrote a trivially scriptable app to isolate and illustrate the problem.
>>> Here's my simple script, copied and pasted exactly from AppleScript Editor:
>>>
>>> get application id "com.yourcompany.TrivialScriptable"
>>> set myApp to result
>>> tell myApp
>>> activate
>>> greet("hello!!!")
>>> end tell
>>>
>>> If you're seeing the above as rich text, notice how "greet" is not bold and
>>> blue, indicating that the AppleScript compiler indeed thinks my app does
>>> not implement the "greet" command.
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure I've set up the app correctly, because targeting it via the
>>> app name works:
>>>
>>> tell application "TrivialScriptable"
>>> activate
>>> greet ("this works")
>>> end tell
>>>
>>> In this case the "greet" is properly highlighted.
>>>
>>> What am I missing here? Is this some quirk of AppleScript?
>>>
>>> Note: I want to use the bundle identifier rather than the app name because
>>> in the case of my real app I have an iOS app with the same name. This means
>>> there is an XXX.app sitting in the build directory of my iOS project. This
>>> confuses AppleScript into targeting the wrong XXX.app.
>>>
>>> If you want to see this for yourself, a 26K zip file containing the code
>>> for TrivialScriptable is in my public iDisk (user aglee). Build the app and
>>> try running the above AppleScript snippets in AppleScript Editor.
>>>
>>> If I can't solve this I may change my approach and define a custom URL
>>> scheme and use that rather than AppleScript for the inter-app communication
>>> I need.
>>>
>>> --Andy
>>
>
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