1 """Tools for use in AppleEvent clients and servers.
3 pack(x) converts a Python object to an AEDesc object
4 unpack(desc) does the reverse
6 packevent(event, parameters, attributes) sets params and attrs in an AEAppleEvent record
7 unpackevent(event) returns the parameters and attributes from an AEAppleEvent record
9 Plus... Lots of classes and routines that help representing AE objects,
10 ranges, conditionals, logicals, etc., so you can write, e.g.:
12 x = Character(1, Document("foobar"))
14 and pack(x) will create an AE object reference equivalent to AppleScript's
16 character 1 of document "foobar"
18 Some of the stuff that appears to be exported from this module comes from other
19 files: the pack stuff from aepack, the objects from aetypes.
26 from Carbon
import Evt
27 from Carbon
import AppleEvents
33 from aepack
import packkey
, pack
, unpack
, coerce, AEDescType
35 Error
= 'aetools.Error'
37 # Amount of time to wait for program to be launched
38 LAUNCH_MAX_WAIT_TIME
=10
40 # Special code to unpack an AppleEvent (which is *not* a disguised record!)
41 # Note by Jack: No??!? If I read the docs correctly it *is*....
51 'inte', # this attribute is read only - will be set in AESend
52 'esrc', # this attribute is read only
53 'miss', # this attribute is read only
59 desc
= ae
.AEGetAttributeDesc('miss', 'keyw')
64 def unpackevent(ae
, formodulename
=""):
67 dirobj
= ae
.AEGetParamDesc('----', '****')
71 parameters
['----'] = unpack(dirobj
, formodulename
)
73 # Workaround for what I feel is a bug in OSX 10.2: 'errn' won't show up in missed...
75 dirobj
= ae
.AEGetParamDesc('errn', '****')
79 parameters
['errn'] = unpack(dirobj
, formodulename
)
84 parameters
[key
] = unpack(ae
.AEGetParamDesc(key
, '****'), formodulename
)
86 for key
in aekeywords
:
88 desc
= ae
.AEGetAttributeDesc(key
, '****')
89 except (AE
.Error
, MacOS
.Error
), msg
:
90 if msg
[0] != -1701 and msg
[0] != -1704:
93 attributes
[key
] = unpack(desc
, formodulename
)
94 return parameters
, attributes
96 def packevent(ae
, parameters
= {}, attributes
= {}):
97 for key
, value
in parameters
.items():
98 packkey(ae
, key
, value
)
99 for key
, value
in attributes
.items():
100 ae
.AEPutAttributeDesc(key
, pack(value
))
103 # Support routine for automatically generated Suite interfaces
104 # These routines are also useable for the reverse function.
106 def keysubst(arguments
, keydict
):
107 """Replace long name keys by their 4-char counterparts, and check"""
108 ok
= keydict
.values()
109 for k
in arguments
.keys():
110 if keydict
.has_key(k
):
113 arguments
[keydict
[k
]] = v
114 elif k
!= '----' and k
not in ok
:
115 raise TypeError, 'Unknown keyword argument: %s'%k
117 def enumsubst(arguments
, key
, edict
):
118 """Substitute a single enum keyword argument, if it occurs"""
119 if not arguments
.has_key(key
) or edict
is None:
124 arguments
[key
] = Enum(edict
[v
])
126 raise TypeError, 'Unknown enumerator: %s'%v
128 def decodeerror(arguments
):
129 """Create the 'best' argument for a raise MacOS.Error"""
130 errn
= arguments
['errn']
132 if arguments
.has_key('errs'):
133 err_a2
= arguments
['errs']
135 err_a2
= MacOS
.GetErrorString(errn
)
136 if arguments
.has_key('erob'):
137 err_a3
= arguments
['erob']
141 return (err_a1
, err_a2
, err_a3
)
144 """An AE connection to an application"""
145 _signature
= None # Can be overridden by subclasses
146 _moduleName
= None # Can be overridden by subclasses
147 _elemdict
= {} # Can be overridden by subclasses
148 _propdict
= {} # Can be overridden by subclasses
150 __eventloop_initialized
= 0
151 def __ensure_WMAvailable(klass
):
152 if klass
.__eventloop
_initialized
: return 1
153 if not MacOS
.WMAvailable(): return 0
154 # Workaround for a but in MacOSX 10.2: we must have an event
155 # loop before we can call AESend.
156 Evt
.WaitNextEvent(0,0)
158 __ensure_WMAvailable
= classmethod(__ensure_WMAvailable
)
160 def __init__(self
, signature
=None, start
=0, timeout
=0):
161 """Create a communication channel with a particular application.
163 Addressing the application is done by specifying either a
164 4-byte signature, an AEDesc or an object that will __aepack__
167 self
.target_signature
= None
168 if signature
is None:
169 signature
= self
._signature
170 if type(signature
) == AEDescType
:
171 self
.target
= signature
172 elif type(signature
) == InstanceType
and hasattr(signature
, '__aepack__'):
173 self
.target
= signature
.__aepack
__()
174 elif type(signature
) == StringType
and len(signature
) == 4:
175 self
.target
= AE
.AECreateDesc(AppleEvents
.typeApplSignature
, signature
)
176 self
.target_signature
= signature
178 raise TypeError, "signature should be 4-char string or AEDesc"
179 self
.send_flags
= AppleEvents
.kAEWaitReply
180 self
.send_priority
= AppleEvents
.kAENormalPriority
182 self
.send_timeout
= timeout
184 self
.send_timeout
= AppleEvents
.kAEDefaultTimeout
189 """Start the application, if it is not running yet"""
191 self
.send('ascr', 'noop')
193 _launch(self
.target_signature
)
194 for i
in range(LAUNCH_MAX_WAIT_TIME
):
196 self
.send('ascr', 'noop')
204 """Deprecated, used _start()"""
207 def newevent(self
, code
, subcode
, parameters
= {}, attributes
= {}):
208 """Create a complete structure for an apple event"""
210 event
= AE
.AECreateAppleEvent(code
, subcode
, self
.target
,
211 AppleEvents
.kAutoGenerateReturnID
, AppleEvents
.kAnyTransactionID
)
212 packevent(event
, parameters
, attributes
)
215 def sendevent(self
, event
):
216 """Send a pre-created appleevent, await the reply and unpack it"""
217 if not self
.__ensure
_WMAvailable
():
218 raise RuntimeError, "No window manager access, cannot send AppleEvent"
219 reply
= event
.AESend(self
.send_flags
, self
.send_priority
,
221 parameters
, attributes
= unpackevent(reply
, self
._moduleName
)
222 return reply
, parameters
, attributes
224 def send(self
, code
, subcode
, parameters
= {}, attributes
= {}):
225 """Send an appleevent given code/subcode/pars/attrs and unpack the reply"""
226 return self
.sendevent(self
.newevent(code
, subcode
, parameters
, attributes
))
229 # The following events are somehow "standard" and don't seem to appear in any
233 """Send 'activate' command"""
234 self
.send('misc', 'actv')
236 def _get(self
, _object
, as=None, _attributes
={}):
237 """_get: get data from an object
238 Required argument: the object
239 Keyword argument _attributes: AppleEvent attribute dictionary
245 _arguments
= {'----':_object
}
247 _arguments
['rtyp'] = mktype(as)
249 _reply
, _arguments
, _attributes
= self
.send(_code
, _subcode
,
250 _arguments
, _attributes
)
251 if _arguments
.has_key('errn'):
252 raise Error
, decodeerror(_arguments
)
254 if _arguments
.has_key('----'):
255 return _arguments
['----']
266 def _set(self
, _object
, _attributes
={}, **_arguments
):
267 """set: Set an object's data.
268 Required argument: the object for the command
269 Keyword argument to: The new value.
270 Keyword argument _attributes: AppleEvent attribute dictionary
275 keysubst(_arguments
, self
._argmap
_set
)
276 _arguments
['----'] = _object
279 _reply
, _arguments
, _attributes
= self
.send(_code
, _subcode
,
280 _arguments
, _attributes
)
281 if _arguments
.get('errn', 0):
282 raise Error
, decodeerror(_arguments
)
283 # XXXX Optionally decode result
284 if _arguments
.has_key('----'):
285 return _arguments
['----']
289 # Magic glue to allow suite-generated classes to function somewhat
290 # like the "application" class in OSA.
292 def __getattr__(self
, name
):
293 if self
._elemdict
.has_key(name
):
294 cls
= self
._elemdict
[name
]
295 return DelayedComponentItem(cls
, None)
296 if self
._propdict
.has_key(name
):
297 cls
= self
._propdict
[name
]
299 raise AttributeError, name
301 # Tiny Finder class, for local use only
303 class _miniFinder(TalkTo
):
304 def open(self
, _object
, _attributes
={}, **_arguments
):
305 """open: Open the specified object(s)
306 Required argument: list of objects to open
307 Keyword argument _attributes: AppleEvent attribute dictionary
312 if _arguments
: raise TypeError, 'No optional args expected'
313 _arguments
['----'] = _object
316 _reply
, _arguments
, _attributes
= self
.send(_code
, _subcode
,
317 _arguments
, _attributes
)
318 if _arguments
.has_key('errn'):
319 raise Error
, decodeerror(_arguments
)
320 # XXXX Optionally decode result
321 if _arguments
.has_key('----'):
322 return _arguments
['----']
325 _finder
= _miniFinder('MACS')
327 def _launch(appfile
):
328 """Open a file thru the finder. Specify file by name or fsspec"""
329 _finder
.open(_application_file(('ID ', appfile
)))
332 class _application_file(ComponentItem
):
333 """application file - An application's file on disk"""
336 _application_file
._propdict
= {
338 _application_file
._elemdict
= {
342 # XXXX Should test more, really...
345 target
= AE
.AECreateDesc('sign', 'quil')
346 ae
= AE
.AECreateAppleEvent('aevt', 'oapp', target
, -1, 0)
347 print unpackevent(ae
)
349 ae
= AE
.AECreateAppleEvent('core', 'getd', target
, -1, 0)
350 obj
= Character(2, Word(1, Document(1)))
353 packevent(ae
, {'----': obj
})
354 params
, attrs
= unpackevent(ae
)
358 if __name__
== '__main__':