Bastiaan, in his email below, has identified the key reason why Peter's
original script was not working. But perhaps a few additional comments
are worth making ...
1. data sources can be addressed directly from anywhere in any script
within an AppleScript Studio application. This is a very good thing!
In relation to this script it means that in the "getContactInfo"
handler there is no need for the "tell theWindow" and "end tell" lines.
They are quite redundant, you can just cut them out, and you don't need
to pass the variable theWindow. You just need to pass the two things:
the reference to the data row and the data you want inserted into that
data row.
A further minor consequence of data sources' global availability is
that while you can, as has been done in this script, store the data
source in a variable, you don't actually have to. I tend to simply
address my data sources by name - just one less thing to keep track of
- so, for instance, would say:
set theRow to make new data row at the end of the data rows of data
source "contacts"
and
set data source of table view "contacts" of scroll view "contacts" of
window "main" to data source "contacts"
This is purely a matter of preference.
2. I don't know how, Peter, you are constructing your application, but
I just wonder whether the "on open" handler is the right one in which
to create the data source and assign it to the table view. I think I am
right in saying - and if I'm not, I am sure someone will correct me -
that the "on open" handler gets called every time a window is opened
whether for the first time when the application is run or after it has
been closed while the application is running. If you want your data
source to be created just once (which is probably how it's normally
done), then the "awake from nib" handler would be the better one to put
it in.
3. As a matter of course, I would use "content" not "contents", so
would say:
set content of data cell "Name" of theRow to item 2 of item 1 of myData
There is a note in the studio reference about the use of "content" and
"contents". You will often get away with "contents" but "content" is
generally safer.
Regards
Philip
On 7 Jul 2005, at 08:13, Bastiaan Boertien wrote:
Are you working in OS 10.4? Because 'window of theObject' does not
work on my computer. So I named the window "main"
The other problem was that you define myData after you would like to
fill in the table view.
myData will not go automaticly to the getContactInfo handler. I send
myData as an argument to the handler but you can also make a property
of myData just like contactsDataSource.
Also data source of table view "contacts" of scroll view "contacts" of
window "main" is not there when you never made one. Well my OS is
10.3.9 and it returns a missing value. In the on will open handler I
make a new data source.
well here's my solution
property contactsDataSource : missing value
on clicked theObject --button "Populate"
set theRow to make new data row at the end of the data rows of
contactsDataSource
display dialog class of theRow
set myData to {{"item1", "item2", "item3", "item4", "item5", "item6",
"item7"}, {"empty"}}
getContactInfo(window "main", theRow, myData)
end clicked
on will open theObject
set contactsDataSource to make new data source at end of data sources
with properties {name:"contacts"}
tell contactsDataSource
make new data column at the end of the data columns with properties
{name:"Name"}
make new data column at the end of the data columns with properties
{name:"Page"}
make new data column at the end of the data columns with properties
{name:"Bounds"}
make new data column at the end of the data columns with properties
{name:"Scale"}
make new data column at the end of the data columns with properties
{name:"Horizontal Scale"}
make new data column at the end of the data columns with properties
{name:"Vertical Scale"}
make new data column at the end of the data columns with properties
{name:"File Path"}
end tell
set data source of table view "contacts" of scroll view "contacts" of
window "main" to contactsDataSource
end will open
on getContactInfo(theWindow, theRow, myData)
tell theWindow
set contents of data cell "Name" of theRow to item 2 of item 1 of
myData
set contents of data cell "Page" of theRow to item 3 of item 1 of
myData
set contents of data cell "Bounds" of theRow to item 7 of item 1 of
myData
set contents of data cell "Scale" of theRow to item 6 of item 1 of
myData
set contents of data cell "Horizontal Scale" of theRow to item 4 of
item 1 of myData
set contents of data cell "Vertical Scale" of theRow to item 5 of
item 1 of myData
set contents of data cell "File Path" of theRow to item 1 of item 1
of myData
end tell
end getContactInfo
Op 6-jul-05 om 16:52 heeft Pete Kincaid het volgende geschreven:
Hello, Im trying to import information into my table object. This is
my
script. I know the names of the tableView, ScrollView are correct.
But I
keep getting an error when ever I hit my populate button
property contactsDataSource : null
on clicked theObject --button "Populate"
set theRow to make new data row at the end of the data rows of
contactsDataSource
display dialog class of theRow
getContactInfo(window of theObject, theRow)
set myData to {{"item1", "item2", "item3", "item4", "item5",
"item6",
"item7"}, {"empty"}}
end clicked
on will open theObject
set contactsDataSource to data source of table view "contacts" of
scroll
view "contacts" of window of theObject
tell contactsDataSource
make new data column at the end of the data columns with
properties
{name:"Name"}
make new data column at the end of the data columns with
properties
{name:"Page"}
make new data column at the end of the data columns with
properties
{name:"Bounds"}
make new data column at the end of the data columns with
properties
{name:"Scale"}
make new data column at the end of the data columns with
properties
{name:"Horizontal Scale"}
make new data column at the end of the data columns with
properties
{name:"Vertical Scale"}
make new data column at the end of the data columns with
properties
{name:"File Path"}
end tell
end will open
on getContactInfo(theWindow, theRow)
tell theWindow
set contents of data cell "Name" of theRow to item 2 of item
1 of
myData
set contents of data cell "Page" of theRow to item 3 of item
1 of
myData
set contents of data cell "Bounds" of theRow to item 7 of
item 1 of
myData
set contents of data cell "Scale" of theRow to item 6 of item
1 of
myData
set contents of data cell "Horizontal Scale" of theRow to
item 4 of
item 1 of myData
set contents of data cell "Vertical Scale" of theRow to item
5 of
item 1 of myData
set contents of data cell "File Path" of theRow to item 1 of
item 1
of myData
end tell
end getContactInfo
--
Peter Kincaid
Data Conversion
Schawk, Inc.
(815)444-2338
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