Unwinding the containment hierarchy of a reference (revisited)
Unwinding the containment hierarchy of a reference (revisited)
- Subject: Unwinding the containment hierarchy of a reference (revisited)
- From: "Scott Babcock" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:19:19 -0800
- Thread-topic: Unwinding the containment hierarchy of a reference (revisited)
I've been working with System Events and I need a way to convert an
AppleScript object reference into text suitable for handing to 'run
script'.
The goal is to add text so that I can run the revised code to check for
the existence of named or indexed child elements or produce a filtered
list of child references.
I've been using the method of wrapping the reference in a record, trying
to coerce to text, and capturing the error message. This works until I
send it an object reference that contains Unicode selectors. The reason
Unicode is a problem here is that the error text is 'styled text', which
can only represent MacRoman characters. All of the Unicode-only
characters in the selectors get translated to '?', which is entirely
useless.
Is there a more graceful way to convert references to text? Can I send
System Events object references to another application without System
Events getting involved? (I made a rough attempt at this, and System
Events kept getting in the way...)
I don't need to have the terminology resolved to friendly text; I
actually prefer raw codes in this context. Having the ability to process
"foreign" object references will be useful for other tasks as well, like
getting a reference to an object's parent.
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