[Pythonmac-SIG] py-Appscript broken with FileMaker 11?

[John Jackson]

Thanks for this. It worked in terms of getting the application to talk to FileMaker, just as you described.

I've filed a bug report with FileMaker. But it appears that they have broken a lot more in the AppleScript implementation (see http://forums.filemaker.com/posts/4b2544f7a4) such that it accepts events w/o delay (in some sort of parallel manner causing database deadlocks. It doesn't wait for internal scripts to finish before accepting another applescript -- which it use to.

I'm now running into so many issues that I may just have to abandon version 11 until they fix them.

On Jul 12, 2010, at 10:19 AM, has wrote:

> John Jackson wrote:
> 
>> I recently upgraded FileMaker to version 11, and discovered that my python-based application that relies on appscript to control a FileMaker database has broken.
> 
> I believe that's a bug in FMP 11, where sending an ascr/gdte (get terminology) event to FMP returns the default Cocoa Scripting terminology, rather than FMP's actual dictionary. You should file a bug report with FileMaker, as this will also affect scripting FMP from AppleScript via Remote Apple Events.
> 
> As a workaround, use the dump function in appscript.terminology to export the FMP dictionary to a static module and pass that module when creating app objects, like this: app('FileMaker Pro', terms=fmp11terminologymodule). Make sure you run the dump command under 32-bit Python (use 'arch -i386' followed by the path to the python interpreter in the Python.framework bundle) as it uses OSAGetAppTerminology, which isn't present in OS X's 64-bit APIs. 
> 
> HTH
> 
> has
> -- 
> Learn AppleScript, 3rd edition, Sanderson & Rosenthal: 
> http://apress.com/book/view/9781430223610
> Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC:
> http://appscript.sourceforge.net
> 
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