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How would I write the following rb-appscript in objc-appscript?

The documentation in the appscript objc-trunk randomly uses ruby in the section called "Performance Issues".

require "appscript"
include Appscript

desiredEmail = '[email protected]'

p app('Address Book').people[
        its.emails.value.contains(desiredEmail)
        ].name.get

How would this be written in Objective-C? I apologize if this seems like an overly basic question, I have 0 experience with Ruby.

Thanks.

Solution

  • If you run the ruby script and use ASTranslate it should translate the raw appscript commands to Objc-appscript.

    Edit01:

    I think it will look something like this. I haven't run the tool to make the glue code so I'm guessing about the way the app name shows up. 

    #import "AddressBookGlue.h" //Dont know the precise name 

AddressBookApplication *abApp=[[AddressBookApplication alloc] initWithName: @"Address Book.app"];

NSString *desiredEmail=@"[email protected]"

NSString *returnedName= [[[[[[abApp people] emails] value] contains:desiredEmail] name] get];

    Basically, it follows the same rules that Objectic-c uses when converting from a dot syntax: anywhere there is a dot in the original syntax, expect a bracket in Objective-C.

    I might add that if you're going to be doing a lot of this type scripting, it would be best to spend a day or two learning the basics of ruby or python. It's a lot easier to work with OSA in a dot syntax than a nested syntax. Just looking at all those brackets in the documentation for Objc-appscript makes my eyes water.