514108 - AppleScript curl & pTit are busted again

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Steps to reproduce: paste the following into Script Editor and click Run.

tell application "Firefox"
	set Link to get «class curl» of window 1 as text
	set theTitle to «class pTit» of window 1 as text
	{Link, theTitle}
end tell

In Firefox 3.5, it works, showing the page URL and title.  In Firefox 3.6 and trunk, I get "Can’t make «class curl» of window 1 of application 'Firefox' into type Unicode text."

This breaks features of Adium and Things.  It has been broken before; see bug 427448 and bug 448087.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This is almost certainly a result of bug 363747, though I'd check the regression range to be sure.

I'm not aware of another current bug about adding back non-file-opening-related functionality that was also removed (but that's not to say there's not one hiding in Toolkit or in every XUL app's OS Integration component that I've not seen).

Comment 2

[Josh Aas]

We support standard ways of accessing those attributes now. We should notify Adium and Things that the API is different, improved.

Comment 3

[Josh Aas]

Here is how to do that stuff using our new AppleScript support.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363747#c9

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

That only gets you the title.  I filed bug 516502 for getting the URL (Firefox only).

Comment 5

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Sorry, I had missed bug 363747 comment 9's mention of dictionary-less Standard Suite support in all the noise over opening files that followed.  (It seems a bit buggy in quick tests, particularly for setting window properties, but it does at least support getting all Standard Suite window properties correctly.)