Re: Unwanted font style transfers
Re: Unwanted font style transfers
- Subject: Re: Unwanted font style transfers
- From: Tom Robinson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:15:41 +1300
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I'm grabbing basic file information and loading it into a FileMaker
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database. All is well except for the filename. When I transfer the
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filename to a cell in FileMaker Pro the font style is different from
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all of the rest of the information gathered from the same Finder
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action.
I had the same problem going from both the Finder and iTunes to FileMaker - it seems there's some style information which gets transferred too (though why it's relevant to iTunes and the Finder when they don't save style information I don't understand...).
Your filesize field is probably numeric so FileMaker will be ignoring the style information (and/or the Finder doesn't set it for physical size).
My first approach was to replace the field contents with itself at the FileMaker end. After learning a bit more AppleScript I've come up with:
tell application "Finder" to set theComment to comment of alias thisItem
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set plainTheComment to <<class ktxt>> of (theComment as record) -- Most important line for you
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tell application "FileMaker Pro" to create record with data {plainThisItem, theCreator, theType, plainTheComment}
i.e. theComment contains both text and style information. plainTheComment contains only the text.
(Where << and >> are the chevrons from option-\ and option-shift-\)
Cheers
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