Multi-script project?

Scripting Forums AppleScriptObjC and Xcode
#1

Hi,

To prevent my script from becoming too “crowded” i’d like to split one script into many.

I’d like to have one script-file that handles the launch process, one script file that that handles every button press, one script-file to check for updates and so on. I tried to accomplish this by adding a new NSObject, the problem is that this new object isn’t connected to any applescript file.

Thank you very much!

#2

You need to click on the blue cube, then show the Identity Inspector, and enter the class name where it says “Class”.

#3

thanks for your quick reply!

I already tried that but got this error:

Edit: However when i click on the little arrow next to the class it does guide me to the correct script…

#4

The class name must match the script file name and the script class name “ according to the screenshot it’s SendMessage

#5

That’s telling you you don’t have a class called NewMessage. The class name is the bit following the word “script” at the beginning of your script file.

#6

when i click here:

it sends me here:

so it would seem it should work…

#7

Your parent property refers to a class that doesn’t exist. You can’t make an AS class a subclass of another AS class, so that should be NSObject or some other Cocoa class.

#8

No luck either with ObjectWithFords nor NSObject

#9

the error message says a class called “NewMessage”. Did you have such a class at some stage and link something in the interface to it?

#10

No i did not, i did have sendNewMessage which xcode also seems to keep refering to although i removed it

#11

f it’s not too complex, you might want to consider deleting most of the things in your interface and redoing them. It sounds like something might have been corrupted.

#12

Rebuilding the interface did work. The only received action that won’t be recognized is sendNewMessage. There must still be something wrong. stay tuned…

#13

well somehow IB still think there is a sendNewMessage. atm i got this:

#14

It’s getting stranger every minute…

when i do this it only recognizes NEWMSGBTN (Just copied that from the other script to test)


script SendMessage
property parent : class "ObjectWithFords"
    property test : missing value
    property Receiver : missing value
    property Subject : missing value
    property Content : missing value

on PrepareMessage_(sender)
    log "Grabbing textfield value's..."
    set theReceiver to Receiver's stringValue() as text
    log "Receiver: " & theReceiver
    set theSubject to Subject's stringValue() as text
    log "Subject: " & theSubject
    set theContent to Content's stringValue() as text
    log "Content: " & theContent
end PrepareMessage_
    
on NEWMSGBTN_(sender)
        log "New message button triggered"
        try
            NewMessageWindow's showOver_(MainWindow)
            on error
            log "NewMessageWindow couldn't showover"
            NewMessageWindow's orderFront_(me)
            
        end
    end NEWMSGBTN_
end script

And when i do this it only recognizes SendMessage1


script SendMessage
property parent : class "ObjectWithFords"
    property test : missing value
    property Receiver : missing value
    property Subject : missing value
    property Content : missing value

on PrepareMessage_(sender)
    log "Grabbing textfield value's..."
    set theReceiver to Receiver's stringValue() as text
    log "Receiver: " & theReceiver
    set theSubject to Subject's stringValue() as text
    log "Subject: " & theSubject
    set theContent to Content's stringValue() as text
    log "Content: " & theContent
end PrepareMessage_
    
on NEWMSGBTN_(sender)
        log "New message button triggered"
        try
            NewMessageWindow's showOver_(MainWindow)
            on error
            log "NewMessageWindow couldn't showover"
            NewMessageWindow's orderFront_(me)
            
        end
    end NEWMSGBTN_

    on PrepareMessage1_(sender)
        log "Grabbing textfield value's..."
        set theReceiver to Receiver's stringValue() as text
        log "Receiver: " & theReceiver
        set theSubject to Subject's stringValue() as text
        log "Subject: " & theSubject
        set theContent to Content's stringValue() as text
        log "Content: " & theContent
    end PrepareMessage_

end script
#15

I’m not sure what’s happening. Control-click on the file in Navigator and choose Open with External Editor. This will open it in your script editor; compile it there and save, to make sure it compiles OK.

#16

I’m not sure either. But somehow it is now working perfectly. What i did was make sure i ended the routine correctly and hit tab a few times. It’s working as expected now! Anyway as i’m only at the beginning of this project i’ll probably get a lot more problems (with NSScrollview, mostly). Anyway, thank you both!

#17

This is another reason why using an external editor is a good idea – you can spot problems in compiled code, not just raw text.

#18

Mmm what’s that editor called again?

Edit: nvm found it, script debugger 4.5

#19

Something else, but related:

I’d like to load handlers from another script. So i tried to use this:

set ScriptLoc to ((current application's NSBundle's mainBundle()'s bundlePath()) as text) & "/Contents/Resources/FirstRun.scpt" as text
        set FirstRun to load script ScriptLoc
        FirstRun's Boom_()

However it always return me

I tried to set the ScriptLoc as alias and as string, both make it impossible for load script to find FirstRun.scpt. Seeing it says it can’t recognize the function i guess there would be something wrong with the target script. But that doesn’t seem likely to me, sinds the only thing in there atm is the empty Boom_() handler.

Any ideas?

Thanks in forward!

#20

Try putting your script somewhere other than loose in Resources; that’s where scripts are loaded from by ASObjC at app launch time.