pythonapplescriptpy-appscriptsourceforge-appscript

Translate AppleScript to Python appscript (`do javascript`)

This is the AppleScript template:

tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"
  set theFile to alias “Application:Documents:MyFile” open theFile
  do javascript (file <path to Emboss.jsx>) with arguments { 75,2,89 }
end tell

And I would like to translate that to Python appscript. Unfortunately, I cannot figure out how to translate the do javascript. Any ideas?

I don't even know how to find it out. Maybe I know AppleScript too less. Is do a keyword? Or is it a command I am sending to the application? Is javascript a parameter of do? Or does do javascript belong together (as a command with a space)?

Solution

  • To translate generic AppleScript to appscript, use the ASTranslate tool available from the appscript web site here. It is not always able to successfully translate due to the quirks and bugs in the script definitions of some applications but it is a good place to start.