Benedikt Quirmbach wrote on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:25:07 +0100:
>is there anyone out there who works with RagTime?
>
>If yes, did you ever script search & replace in RagTime?
>Do you have an example on how to do that?
I have RagTime Solo (5.6.4), but only use the spreadsheet. Because of its
complexity and eccentricities, it's not a particularly friendly
application to script. The handler below only works with 'text flow' text
in layout documents, but it may give you somewhere to start.
on searchAndReplace(searchText, replaceText)
set searchTextLen to (count searchText)
set astid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to searchText
tell application "RagTime Solo"
tell front document
repeat with i from 1 to (count each text flow)
set thisText to (text of text flow i) as string as Unicode text
if (thisText contains searchText) then
-- Replace the individual search-text occurrences
-- in the document itself, to preserve style info.
set b to (count thisText)
set textItems to reverse of rest of thisText's text items
repeat with thisTextItem in textItems
set b to b - (count thisTextItem)
set a to b - searchTextLen + 1
set text a thru b of text flow i to replaceText
set b to a - 1
end repeat
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
end searchAndReplace
searchAndReplace("Fred", "Aardvark")
NG
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
AppleScript-Users mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/applescript-users/email@hidden
Archives: http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users
This email sent to email@hidden
