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#1

Hello,

I have written an application running under Mac OsX (version Logiciel OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)) and now I want to drive this app through Apple Script (version AppleScript editor: Version 2.6.1 (152.1) version AppleScript: 2.3.2)

I have validated my app as scriptable and constructed the suite within a.sdef file,

In this suite, I have in class “AppDelegate” defined an Array of object called upsArray which is defined as an array of one other class called Ups

In my script definition I have specified This AppDelegate class and properties

<class name="AppDelegate" code="SCad" description="main class in SolarMaxOsX.">
	<cocoa class="AppDelegate"/>
<!-- Liste des Ups reconnus dans le fichier de configuration >-->
   	<property name="upsArray" code="obj " type="specifier" access="r" description="List of Ups">
   	<cocoa key="upsArray"/>
   	<type type="Ups"/>
   	</property>
</class>

And in my script to get this Ups Array, I have written:

tell application “/Users/guydesbief/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/SolarMaxOsX-cgcuhyptmpmt iegixfnbbhpexjhn/Build/Products/Debug/SolarMaxOsX.app” to activate
set upsArrayList to a reference to upsArray

class of upsArray

And I get the error:

tell application “SolarMaxOsX”

activate

get class of upsArray

    --> error number -1728 from upsArray

Résultat :

error “Erreur dans SolarMaxOsX : Il est impossible d’obtenir upsArray.” number -1728 from upsArray

What is wrong ?

What must I do to get the reference of upsArray

How can I get the correct reference ?

How can I get the count of this array in the script ?

Thanks for your help

Model: powerbook
AppleScript: AppleScript 2.3.2
Browser: Firefox 26.0
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.8)

#2

Hi,

first of all, all lowercase 4-letter codes are reserved by Apple, so it’s strongly recommended to use a different code.

Some other possible problems:
¢ If you provide a custom type in the SDEF file you have to define the type and implement the scriptingWithDescriptor: and scriptingDescriptor methods.
¢ the top level class in the SDEF file is “application”, the AppDelegate file is “routed” automatically
¢ The application delegate class must implement the delegateHandlesKey: method

#3

Hi
Thanks for your answer :), i will apply every advice and I come back as soon as I have news
But it may take a few days because I have not so much time at his moment
Regards

Model: powerbook
AppleScript: AppleScript 2.3.2
Browser: Firefox 26.0
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.8)

#4

Hi Guy,

Also, I don’t know about the other stuff you’re doing but to get the number of items in the NSArray, you can use count:

gl,
kel

#5

If you get Cocoa Scripting to work “ which is not trivial “ you get the count command for free

#6

Hi Stefan,

So, you mean that you can just use ‘count someArray’ and this is not the AppleScript ‘count someList’? Or is the array being coerced to AppleScript list?

Thanks,
kel

#7

I mean the AppleScript count command, however this requires to implement the KVC method

 - (NSUInteger)countOf<Key>
#8

Hi
I wanted to implement the scriptingWithDescriptor: and scriptingDescriptor methods
for instance if new type is “Ups” (which is actually a Dictionary/record) for instance must I have to implement in Cocoa Ups class ?
1/
In which class must I have to implement these two methods ?
2/
I did not find any sample code for these 2 methods
Has anyone one sample ?
Thanks

Model: powerbook
AppleScript: AppleScript 2.3.2
Browser: Firefox 26.0
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.8)

#9

record is a standard type, why do you want to define a custom one?

Cocoa Scripting is quite complicated and hard to debug, unfortunately the documentation does not cover any detail
Cocoa Scripting Guide