Keynote Application crashes / dies after setting properties on new document

[benkfra]

Hi there, it sounds like a very specific problem and I also can't tell if it's not even due to the Keynote app itself.

When I run the sample code below, the keynote app dies about 20 seconds after I set properties of a new document. With pure AppleScript I could not observe this problem.

Could this have something to do with PyXA or the PyObjC framework used in relation to the garbage collection algorhythm?

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import PyXA
import time

keynote = PyXA.Application('Keynote')
keynote.activate()

newDocumentName = 'Untitled'
wrongDocument = keynote.new_document(newDocumentName)
# If a document was already open, not the newly created document is returned 
# here, but the previously existing document. Keynote seems to re-sort the 
# list with the creation of documents.

newDocument = keynote.documents()[0]
# setting the properties of the newly created document crashes keynote in 
# about 20 seconds...
newDocument.width = 2224
newDocument.height = 1668

time.sleep(20)

# by now, the keynote app should have crashed / died by accident.
# so the next statement should fail...
currentDocument = keynote.documents()[0]

pass

[SKaplanOfficial]

Hi @benkfra, this appears to be because you're only providing the file name, not a full path. If you change Untitled to something along the lines of /Users/benkfra/Documents/Untitled.key, you shouldn't see this issue. I can add an error for when no full path is provided to clarify this.

If a document was already open, not the newly created document is returned

I'll fix this for the next release 🙂