I have a long running server that uses appscript to send keystroke commands
to System Events.
It seems that System Events does not run constantly, or frequently dies.
Quite often, appscript seems to be in a state where it incorrectly thinks
System Events is running, and still sends commands to it, resulting in
failures.
Is there a workaround for this? A way to tell appscript that an app
definitly is not running, or clear some cache maybe that is lingering? I
notice if I start a different python instance, and send commands to System
Events, it correctly starts it up.
Here is a error dump from running essentially app('System Events').run()
when it thought it was already running -- the same happens with launch, or
any other command -- appscript can't get the terminology for System Events
because it isn't running:
File "./avjamasserver.py", line 102, in do_POST
result = self.CallFunction(request, av.activity)
File "./avjamasserver.py", line 74, in CallFunction
return function(*function_args)
File "/Users/noah/Software/RS232/avcontrol.py", line 300, in AudioMode
SafeStart(sys_events)
File "/Users/noah/Software/RS232/avcontrol.py", line 20, in SafeStart
app_instance.run()
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/appscript/reference.py", line 578,
in __getattr__
selectortype, code = self.AS_appdata.referencebyname()[name]
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/appscript/reference.py", line 260,
in referencebyname
self.connect()
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/appscript/reference.py", line 229,
in connect
self._terms = terminology.tablesforapp(t)
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/appscript/terminology.py", line
171, in tablesforapp
_terminologycache[aemapp.AEM_identity] =
tablesforaetes(aetesforapp(aemapp))
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/appscript/terminology.py", line
143, in aetesforapp
raise RuntimeError("Can't get terminology for application (%r): %s" %
(aemapp, e))
RuntimeError: Can't get terminology for application
(aem.Application(u'/System/Library/CoreServices/System Events.app')):
Command failed: Application isn't runnin
g. (-600)
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