Re: Passing MS Word object specs (Larry the O)

Subject: Re: Passing MS Word object specs (Larry the O)

From: Larry the O <email@hidden>

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:56:07 -0700

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Somehow, this still isn't working. Here's some code. filesToProcess is a list of dropped files.

on commonCode()

getEditorInitials()

--main loop to work through list of files

repeat with s from 1 to count of items in filesToProcess

set currentStory to item s of filesToProcess

tell application "Microsoft Word"

activate

open file currentStory

set wholeStory to (create range active document start 0 end (count of characters in active document))

end tell

my formatStoryText(wholeStory)

my errorCheck(wholeStory)

my getStoryParts(wholeStory)

end repeat

end commonCode()

on editorInitials()

....

end editorInitials

on formatStoryText(wholeStory)

.....

end formatStoryText

on errorCheck(wholeStory)

...

end errorCheck

on getStoryParts(wholeStory)

set wholeStoryText to content of wholeStory

if paragraph 1 of wholeStoryText is "" then

beep

end if

end getStoryParts

The script crashes in getStoryParts with a message saying "Can't get paragraph 1 of missing value."

The last command in the log before the crash message is where it tries to get the content of wholeStory, for which the result is "missing value."

I also tried getting the content of the text object of wholeStory, with identical results.

So, it would seem that the problem is not wholeStory getting passed correctly, since the other routines seem to be getting it, but, on the other hand, this works fine:

tell application "Microsoft Word"

set wholeStory to (create range active document start 0 end (count of characters in active document))

set wholeText to content of wholeStory

if paragraph 2 of wholeText is "" then --paragraph 2 is blank

display dialog "we got nothin!" --this dialog comes up as expected

else

display dialog "We got text!"

end if

end tell

I'm SO confused.

Thanks,

Larry

10:01 PM, Olof Hellman wrote:

On Mar 14, 2007, at 8:08 PM, Larry the O wrote:

It compiles OK, but I get an error when it tries to do the subroutine
call, and I would bet that it's because AppleScript can't grok the
chunk of data Word is handing it.

Is there a way to do this or is AS just incapable of hacking the
wacky world of Microsoft?

Well, the VB-ish scripting of Mac Office is indeed wacky, but adding 'my' to your script will at least get you a successful subroutine call:

on processText(wholeStory)
beep
end processText

tell application "Microsoft Word"
set wholeStory to (create range active document start 0 end (count of characters in active document))
my processText(wholeStory)
end tell

You'll probably need another tell block inside the processText code if you want to do anything useful with wholeStory.

- Olof Hellman
Microsoft MacBU

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