[Pythonmac-SIG] Python app with aemreceive is not scriptable

[Kevin Walzer]

On 1/6/10 4:58 AM, has wrote:

>
> Though personally I'd be looking to add a proper AE API, even if only procedural, so that users can't just run arbitrary code. But that's your decision, not mine.
>

Following has's advice here, I'm trying to implement a basic API (set of 
Python commands/functions) in one of my apps. However, it's not working, 
perhaps because of scoping issues.

My Python apps basically run in a single fooApp class, and everything 
runs inside the class. To launch the app (my apps are Tkinter-based), I 
use something like this:

if __name__== '__main__':
     app = fooApp(None)
     app.mainloop()

I've added a doCommand function inside the app class to provide some 
basic functionality in response to an AppleScript: it will set some 
objects/variables, then display the output in the app. In my code it 
looks like this:

     def runCommand(self, string):
         self.searchterm=string
         self.servertree.selection_set('Default')
         self.getInfo()

  However, I'm having some trouble with getting this out to AppleScript. 
My script:

tell application "FooApp"
	run script "fooApp.runCommand(\"inputstring\")"
end tell

returns this error:

NameError: name 'fooApp' is not defined

What's the best way to structure the command so that it can be seen from 
AppleScript, i.e. run in the proper scope and not return an error?

--Kevin
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