iTunes Apple Events API

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Published on 2010-05-09T13:11:29Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 13:18 UTC
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I'd like to control iTunes through Objective-C ( I just can't get Python appscript installed correctly on my OS/X 10.6.3 system ... that would have been my first choice ).

From what I gather, the IPC on Cocoa is based on Apple Events : is there either:

Online documentation on iTunes / Apple Events API ?
Instrospection mechanism to get to iTunes API?

I know about Applescript Editor / Open Dictionary functionality but I can't figure out how to translate the information I see into IPC calls.

Note: I have already tried working out a solution through PyObjC but the main function I am after is track searching which I can't figure out.

Disclaimer: OS/X super-newbie here.

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