[PYTHONMAC-SIG] Q: How To Tell The Finder To Launch An App With A Doc?

[Bill Bedford]

At 1:19 am +0000 18/09/96, Just van Rossum wrote:
~Although this is not a Python specific question, I hope you don't mind
~asking here. It's still Python related.
~
~In my BBEdit extension in which I can send Python code to the interpreter I
~would like to give a prompt when the slave script is not running, asking
~the user to locate it and then: Launch The Interpreter With The Script.
~I am told I have to send an AppleEvent to the Finder to do this, but I've
~crawled through most of the stuff on my Inside Mac CD and I Can't Bleedin'
~Find It. Does anyone know what event to send? Or what else to do? I think
~Jack would also like to know, so we can also make a convenient call for
~this in Python / aetools.py. No More Connection Invalid Errors. Please?
~

I've just spent the whole weekend trying to do this and at last Eureka!!!!!

You can use

	talker = Finder(FINDERSIG)
	talker.open(f)

but you have to remember that FINDERSIG="MACS"

Then everything works


Duh   - Talk about a blinding glimpse of the bleedin' obvious

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 Bill Bedford                                  Designer of Photo-Etches
 billb@mousa.demon.co.uk


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