[Pythonmac-SIG] using py-appscript

Leonardo Santagada santagada at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 15:15:46 CEST 2008


On Sep 9, 2008, at 6:06 AM, David Morley wrote:

> I can use (Python) appscript  reasonably well, if I know exactly what
> "components" I am looking for, e.g.,
>
> app('TextEdit').documents['Read Me'].paragraphs[1].get()
>
> But if I'm faced with a new application I don't know where to start.
> Is there any way to interactively explore what is available? Something
> like
>    dir(app('TextEdit')) -> [..., "documents", ...]
> to let me know that the app has document components
>    app('TextEdit').documents.keys() -> [..., "Read Me", ...]
> to let me know that "Read Me" is one of the documents
> and so on.

http://osx.iusethis.com/app/prefabuibrowser

this seems to do that.


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