Scripting Bridge and Cocoa

[s.arnason]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I am currently using Scripting Bridge to communicate with Word 2008. It works fine in Leopard but in Snow Leopard Scripting Bridge crashes due to some formatting of the Apple Event dictionary in Word. I understand that SB in Leopard was more tolerant towards errors but the new version is not.

Word seems to be the only application that triggers a crash.

Has anyone got the solution to this?

If you feel like trying it out:

In 10.6: open Xcode, link to Scripting Bridge, include the header and place this in the awakeFromNib() or init():

Crasher:
SBApplication *theTargetApp = [SBApplication applicationWithBundleIdentifier"com.microsoft.Word"];

Non-Crasher:
SBApplication *theTargetApp = [SBApplication applicationWithBundleIdentifier"com.apple.iTunes"];

 

[John McGhie]

I doubt if anyone has a solution to this.

Word does not support "events" other than the ones coded as methods in the
AppleScript dictionary in Word.

So attempting to call/register events Microsoft has not specifically
provided APIs for is likely to be exciting.

Sorry

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
I am currently using Scripting Bridge to communicate with Word 2008. It works
fine in Leopard but in Snow Leopard Scripting Bridge crashes due to some
formatting of the Apple Event dictionary in Word. I understand that SB in
Leopard was more tolerant towards errors but the new version is not.

Word seems to be the only application that triggers a crash.

Has anyone got the solution to this?

If you feel like trying it out:

In 10.6: open Xcode, link to Scripting Bridge, include the header and place
this in the awakeFromNib() or init():

Crasher:
SBApplication *theTargetApp = [SBApplication
applicationWithBundleIdentifier"com.microsoft.Word"];

Non-Crasher:
SBApplication *theTargetApp = [SBApplication
applicationWithBundleIdentifier"com.apple.iTunes"];

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Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I am currently using Scripting Bridge to communicate with Word 2008. It works fine in Leopard but in Snow Leopard Scripting Bridge crashes due tosome formatting of the Apple Event dictionary in Word. I understand that SB in Leopard was more tolerant towards errors but the new version is not.
Word seems to be the only application that triggers a crash.
Has anyone got the solution to this?

http://appscript.sourceforge.net/