[Pythonmac-SIG] OmniGraffle and aeve problems

[Daniel Lord]

Bob,

Thanks again for writing aeve. I'll wait for the next version to send 
any messages and not clutter the list with questions on this version.
I will of course still keep trying things *grin* though.



On Dec 3, 2003, at 7:54, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> On Dec 3, 2003, at 10:01 AM, Daniel Lord wrote:
>
>> Before I can join this discussion on OmniGraffle, I need a little help
>> I cannot even make aeve compile a module for OminGraffle and I have 
>> had this problem with a few other apps as well.
>> What does one do in this case? Shouldn't all scriptable applications 
>> have an 'AETE" resource. Why can't aeve find it then?
>>
>> python ./aeve/compiler.py "/Applications/OmniGraffle/OmniGraffle.app"
>
> Use pythonw, not python
>
> Also, you don't need to compile a module, you can just use
> omnigraffle = aeve.talkto('OmniGraffle')
>
> from your script or the interactive prompt
>
> In any case, aeve 0.0.4 and earlier is not well suited for "with 
> properties" interaction with applications.  You all can keep screwing 
> around with it if you like, but the next version of aeve is a big 
> cleanup/rewrite that can reasonably deal with this use case and should 
> fix a bunch of other problems.
>
> -bob