[MacRuby-devel] MacRuby scripting bridge speed

[Steve Clarke]

I have used macruby-appscript  and it works fine.  I had developed quiet a few apps with rb-appscript and I was able to get them all working with the macruby version.  A few things needed change but I was able to write apps that used either macruby or MRI versions of appscript.  Only a few methods in my "library" code needed to check at runtime which version was being used.

Steve

On 23 Dec 2011, at 12:39, Stephen Horne wrote:

> 
> 
>> 	Alan Skipp	22 December 2011 17:15
>> 
>> 
>> I can confirm the same problem with setting up a scripting bridge link to InDesign. In my experience rb-appscript is far superior to scripting bridge, it's a shame it can no longer be developed. Explained here:
>> 
>> http://appscript.sourceforge.net/status.html
> 
> I agree, a real shame. I read Matt Neuburg's book on rb-appscript, and within a couple of days I was solving problems that had long frustrated me with applescript, but I'd skip-read the appscript page so hadn't noticed that warning.
>> 
>> I've never attempted to use macruby-appscript, but it might be worth trying?
>> 
>> https://github.com/dnagir/appscript/tree/master/macruby-appscript/trunk
> 
> Yes, perhaps you're right. I've looked into trying this several times, but I've always been scared off by the need to install ObjC-Appscript and build frameworks, but maybe I should just get a grip.
> 
> Fb
>> 
>> Al
>> 
>> 	Stephen Horne	16 December 2011 15:17
>> I'm new to all this, so apologies if I'm doing something daft. 
>> 
>> I'm trying to create a MacRuby GUI application to parse a load of information from InDesign documents. 
>> 
>> I've previously made this application using applescriptObjC, but I was constantly bouncing off the walls of applescript and getting seemingly random bad_exec errors if I ran it too many times without a reboot, so I've decided to try with MacRuby. 
>> 
>> I'm only at the stage of probing MacRuby to see how to do it, and I've immediately hit a problem; it seems to take a very long time to set up the link to InDesign. 
>> 
>> I found some code in correspondence between Matt Aimonetti and Spencer Rose that I am using to test: 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> #!/usr/local/bin/macruby 
>> framework 'Foundation' 
>> framework 'ScriptingBridge' 
>> 
>> # I followed Matt's instructions for making the bridge support file, but I wasn't sure where it needs to go, so I did this for a quick fix. 
>> load_bridge_support_file '/Users/fatboy/inDesign.bridgesupport' 
>> 
>> appurl = NSURL.fileURLWithPath("/Applications/Adobe Indesign CS5/Adobe InDesign CS5.app") 
>> @id = SBApplication.applicationWithURL(appurl) 
>> doc = @id.activeDocument 
>> 
>> puts doc.name 
>> 
>> pgph = doc.allParagraphStyles 
>> 
>> pgph.each do |style| 
>>      puts "#{style.name}" 
>>      puts style.properties["appliedFont"].name 
>> end 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This code works, but it takes 15+ seconds to set up the link to InDesign (similar stuff with safari takes about 1 second, and in applescript or rb-appscript it takes about a tenth of a second for either InDesign or safari). 
>> 
>> I also tried SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier("com.adobe.indesign"), and this was just the same. 
>> 
>> Is there something I am missing here? 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. 
>> 
>> Fb  
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