Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] PyOSA preview

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Berkowitz
cdevcenter.com/pub/ > a/mac/2007/02/27/replacing-applescript-with-ruby.html>. " Error Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request." -- Paul Berkowitz ___ Pythonmac-

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] PyOSA preview

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Berkowitz
er butchered the URL into two pieces, rendering it unclickable) introduced a faulty space = %20. Removing that got me there. Very nice article! -- Paul Berkowitz ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble with appscript install location

2006-11-14 Thread Paul Berkowitz
a > > instead of > > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ > aeosa I've been staring at those two paths now for several minutes, and I can't see a difference. What's the difference? -- Paul Berkowitz _

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: MacPython icon mockup

2006-04-21 Thread Paul Berkowitz
dea. That icon belongs to AppleScript, and Apple. You're really asking for it if you upset the AppleScript faithful... ;-) -- Paul Berkowitz ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: MacPython icon mockup

2006-04-19 Thread Paul Berkowitz
ook like. > > -Jacob > > [4]: http://hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/python/python-logo-glassy.png Looks great. And all the icons too. -- Paul Berkowitz ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: MacPython icon mockup

2006-04-09 Thread Paul Berkowitz
it far, far too fussy and busy. All those little blocks are bewildering, and awful. It's the opposite of what a good icon she be. Sorry. I really think you'd be better off using the new Python icon as is, or slightly "mac-ified". I'm not really "one of you&

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] 2.4.3 Python Universal Binary Pystone Comparison

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Berkowitz
Title: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] 2.4.3 Python Universal Binary Pystone Comparison Maybe someone should ask on the Xcode mailing list. Almost every question is being answered there by the lead Xcode Tools Apple engineer, Chris Espinosa. -- Paul Berkowitz From: Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Download page on www.python.org now updated

2006-03-02 Thread Paul Berkowitz
a nasty amount of subconscious angst, expressed in -- who knows > -- continuous nightmares? Random acts of violence? > > Surely better to act up front! More snakes on the web page! The 16-ton icon looks horrible. I'm keen to see the snake, if you can provide a link that works. Th

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] How to fetch iCal todo description?

2006-02-12 Thread Paul Berkowitz
tion links from dictionary to object. > > I'm not rebooting into 10.3 to check this theory just now though, but feel > free to dink about with it yourself. But it'd certainly explain why I could > see the properties on 10.4 while someone on 10.3 wouldn&

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] How to fetch iCal todo description?

2006-02-12 Thread Paul Berkowitz
scription' of todo, even though no such property exists in the Panther iCal 1.5.5 AppleScript dictionary (although of course the UI todo does indeed have "Notes") - how exactly does it do it? Or have you been fooled by OS X's way of blocking older versions of iApps from opening

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Pythonmac-SIG Digest, Vol 34, Issue 59

2006-02-11 Thread Paul Berkowitz
ppleScript X" depending on whom you talk to), on the cards for a few years now. He has been prevented from proceeding with it for the time being. None of the AppleScript team will divulge whether this will ever see the light of day - they may not know. -- Paul Berkowitz

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] How to fetch iCal todo description?

2006-02-11 Thread Paul Berkowitz
. Please always include which version of software and OS you're discussing. -- Paul Berkowitz ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] New Page, first proposal

2006-02-08 Thread Paul Berkowitz
le'" All OS X users have 'do shell script' built in. All OS 10.4 users have pythonw built in. They don't even have to look at the code, just double-click the file (which can be disguised with a suitable icon by pasting one into Get

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] book recommendation

2005-11-15 Thread Paul Berkowitz
#x27;ll probably take a look at the above mentioned books > and buy at least one of them. The Mac XCode 2 book I have also > appears that it will be useful for learning to use XCode but not for > really understanding Cocoa (as I would expect based on the title). The Hillegass book is t

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] inputing multi-digit numbers

2005-11-10 Thread Paul Berkowitz
On 11/10/05 12:06 PM, "Kevin Walzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Berkowitz wrote: > >> It mirrors the VBA model, definitely, and its AppleScript syntax is thus a >> little, shall we say "obscure", > > > This is what I referring to. Fr

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] inputing multi-digit numbers

2005-11-10 Thread Paul Berkowitz
voluminous AppleScript dictionary, there's also an AppleScript Reference Guide you can get from MacTopia - the Microsoft Mac website (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/) /Resources/Developer/AppleScript. You can access it (and earlier versions too) via has's appscript from Python. --

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python OCR on the Mac?

2005-10-24 Thread Paul Berkowitz
on the Mac, is AppleScriptable, and therefore accessible also via appscript in Python. I've got OmniPage SE (a Lite version that cam bundled with my scanner) and even it is scriptable to an extent. -- Paul Berkowitz ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python OCR on the Mac?

2005-10-20 Thread Paul Berkowitz
no ActiveX on the Mac, and no OCR in Office Mac. (Apparently ActiveX is now open source, so presumably someone could port it. I don't know that it would be welcomed. though...) -- Paul Berkowitz ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] PyOXIDE wishes?

2005-05-31 Thread Paul Berkowitz
ds - cmd-space - has been taken over by Spotlight in Tiger but you can assign another one in System Prefs/Keyboard & Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts/Input menu, or right in the International/Input menu prefs. -- Paul Berkowitz ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist -

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] appscript and XXXX - what is my app instance returning?

2005-03-31 Thread Paul Berkowitz
even to raw AppleEvent documentation (I think FMP may provide a bit of that.) It will mostly be up to you. Then you'll know how Bob I. must feel on this list...;-) -- Paul Berkowitz ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Re: IDE recommendation

2005-03-30 Thread Paul Berkowitz
On 3/30/05 1:42 PM, "Russell E. Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XCode takes forever to launch. It does? Takes about 1 second here. -- Paul Berkowitz ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.o

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] appscript and XXXX - what is my app instance returning?

2005-03-30 Thread Paul Berkowitz
vagaries of AppleScript with the sanity of Python, there's no getting around the fact that its whole raison d'ĂȘtre - healthy application scripting - can founder on poorly implemented application AppleEvent syntax, with no one around to explain it, let alone fix it. -- Paul Berkowitz ___

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] CFURL Pain

2005-03-03 Thread Paul Berkowitz
On 3/3/05 7:31 AM, "has" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Berkowitz wrote: > >> The type 'alias' for the Save command in the Standard Suite is a long, >> longstanding bug in AppleScript. > > Replacing (as of 10.3) a previous long, longstandin

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] CFURL Pain

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Berkowitz
coercion takes place at a deep enough level (AppleEvent?) that it will work also for appscript and MacPython, I don't know. If you try it, what happens? In _any_ AppleScriptable application, you can always just use the text file path for 'save' in AppleScript, and it works. --

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [OT] To upgrade Mac OSX or not?

2005-01-25 Thread Paul Berkowitz
u're just joking. The differences between each of 10.1 to 10.2, 10.2 to 10.3, and form the sound of it, 10.3 to 10.4 are bigger than OS 8 to OS 9 was, by quite a long way. The reason for the small points is surely just that Apple is still "branding" OS X as an entirely separa

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python+Automator?

2005-01-24 Thread Paul Berkowitz
is to develop Automator actions so that _end users_ can automate with complete ease and simplicity, not to make the writing of actions simple. I would agree with Bob that you'd do better to concentrate on doing things right. The applescript code is simpler than ObjC for anyone who's done

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python+Automator?

2005-01-24 Thread Paul Berkowitz
leEvents between applications then I'm glad you can do it. I did say that has's appscript would surely be useful here. I think getting into any more detail might be breaking NDA - most of this so far is in the publicly available documents. -- Paul Berkowitz ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python+Automator?

2005-01-23 Thread Paul Berkowitz
a Bindings (as for Obj-C actions) but need AppleScript to talk to the apps. Probably has's appscript will be able to do the same in Python. I can't see how far anyone is going to get with PyObjC except for their own apps, and Apple's Address Book, which Apple is already providing many