Comment 3 for bug 1159500

Edward K. Ream (edreamleo) wrote on 2013-03-25:

Are you aware that anything you do in an @button or @command node is
available to scripts?
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Thank you for responding.

To answer your question: Yes--and NO. I have been aware of this claim for a long time. I've also read:

http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/scripting.html#invoking-commands-from-scripts

Perhaps I don't understand. Perhaps, there are exceptions to this generalization.

For example, consider the standard "button" Cmds - Icons - Insert-Icon. While there is a mini-buffer command insert-icon, I can't find any attribute of the commander that might correspond to insert-icon. Hence, I'm unable to use the "Invoking Commands from Scripts" recipe.

I'm also aware of this scheme:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/leo-editor/3YjB8RjUbr0

And in fact, this scheme does work in this case for a Leo-Editor script:

c.executeMinibufferCommand('insert-icon')

But it does NOT do what I want to do. It pops up a file browser and it requires the user to pick an icon. I want to assign icons that I pick when I write my script. I want unattended script operation.

When I use this scheme from a Python script that uses leoBridge, the script does nothing and does not report any error. Of course, it doesn't have any hope of doing what I want, because there is no way for my Python script to specify the icon to be used.