appleevents

I have a properly sandboxed application in macOS, Objective-C that talks to third party applications by Apple Events (e.g. Adobe InDesign). In macOS Mojave everything breaks cause Apple's new SIP ( https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Security/Conceptual/System_Integrity_Protection_Guide/Introduction/Introduction.html ) doesn't allow the communication. I didn't find any solution yet. Any help appreciated. This is the error message: skipped scripting addition "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax" because it is not SIP-protected. This is a pretty good summary

I would like to execute the Applescript command tell application "Finder" to open POSIX file */path/to/somefilename* from a C++ program. It looks like I might want to use OSACompileExecute , but I haven't been able to find an example of how to use it. I keep finding examples of how to use the OSACompile Terminal command. Can someone provide an example or a link to an example? Ok, the trick was to not bother trying to compile and execute the Applescript but to simply use the osascript system command: sprintf(cmd, "osascript -e 'tell app \"Finder\" to open POSIX file \"%s/%s\"'", getcwd(path,

To call AppleScript from Python, I use the "appscript" bridge: http://appscript.sourceforge.net/ What can I use to call AppleScript from Java on Mac OS X 10.6+? Here's an approach that works for me for Java on Mac OS X 10.6+. This example script fetches the creation date of the current folder: import javax.script.ScriptEngine; import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager; import javax.script.ScriptException; import java.io.File; import java.util.Date; import java.util.GregorianCalendar; public class ScratchSpace { public static void main(String[] args) throws ScriptException { System.out.println(

I am using following applescript to relaunch finder application. osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\"" -e "delay 1" -e "try" -e "quit" -e "delay 1" -e "activate" -e "end try" -e "end tell" But sometimes this script is not relaunching finder application(only quiting finder application). i am not getting any error in console. http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/113654-nsapplescript-buggy.html Can anyone please help me out? Here's an applescript way. You cannot rely on a specific delay time as you've seen. Therefore we manually wait for the Finder to quit by checking if it's in the

Apples' Sandobox is supposed to use Apple Event Access Groups, which allow applications to communicate with each other, as described in the WWDC video " Session 206 Secure Automation Techniques In OS X " However, what is not mentioned (and I could find no reference to it in Xcode 5.x documentation) is how can I find out which Apple Event Access Groups are defined for a specific application. For example, if I want my App to communicate with Pages (or Photoshop, or Firefox, etc.), how can I find documentation about its Apple Event Access Groups? Where are they defined, and what tool can I use to

What I'm doing is executing an AppleScript inside of Cocoa. It returns some data as a NSAppleEventDescriptor , which NSLog() prints like so: <NSAppleEventDescriptor: 'obj '{ 'form':'name', 'want':'dskp', 'seld':'utxt'("69671872"), 'from':'null'() }> I want to take that data and turn it into a NSDictionary or NSArray , or something useful so I can extract stuff from it (specifically I'm after the field holding the "69671872" number). It appears to be an array of some sort, but my knowledge with Apple Events is fairly limited. Any idea on how to do this? Here's the source creating the above data