SBApplication Class

Definition

[Foundation.Register("SBApplication", true)]
public class SBApplication : ScriptingBridge.SBObject, IDisposable

[<Foundation.Register("SBApplication", true)>]
type SBApplication = class
    inherit SBObject
    interface INSCoding
    interface INativeObject
    interface IDisposable

Inheritance

Object

NSObject

SBObject

SBApplication

Attributes

RegisterAttribute

Implements

INSCoding INativeObject IDisposable

Remarks

There are multiple steps to use this API successfully.

First step is to create a binding project, which will define a protocol for the specific application to interact with, and the corresponding API. The code in the API definition for the binding project should look something like this:

namespace Finder {
    [Protocol]
    interface FinderApplication {
        [Export ("version")]
        string Version { get; }
    }
}

The second step is to create an executable project, which references the binding project. Additionally, the executable project defines a class that mirrors the protocol from the binding project:

namespace Finder {
    [Protocol]
    class FinderApplication : SBApplication, IFinderApplication {
        // This constructor so that the runtime can create an instance of this class from the
        // Objetive-C object handle in the call to SBApplication.GetApplication.
        protected FinderApplication (NativeHandle handle) { }
        // Otherwise this class is empty, all the API will be provided through the protocol interface.
    }
}

Note that the FinderApplication class subclasses this class (SBApplication), in addition to implementing the FinderApplication protocol (which has been generated as an interface, with an I prefix, in the binding project).

The final step is to call GetApplication, and cast the return value to the protocol interface.

public static string GetFinderVersion () {
    var finder = (IFinderApplication) SBApplication.GetApplication<FinderApplication> ("com.apple.finder");
    return finder.Version;
}