Re: Naming Quark boxes - screwed up!
Re: Naming Quark boxes - screwed up!
- Subject: Re: Naming Quark boxes - screwed up!
- From: Steve Kump <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:13:21 -0500
I should mention that I only switched to the code below after the even
simpler
tell app "Quark"
tell document 1
set the name of the current box to myName
end tell
end tell
didn't work either!
Steve Kump
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From: Steve Kump <email@hidden>
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:54:05 -0700
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To: AppleScript <email@hidden>
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Subject: Naming Quark boxes - screwed up!
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Hi List,
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I am doing this very simple operation in three steps to try and solve this
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strange behaviour:
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tell application "QuarkXPress"
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tell document 1
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set theBox to the object reference of the current box
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set theIndex to the index of theBox
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set name of generic box theIndex to "hello"
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end tell
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end tell
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When I select a single box and run this script, it always names SEVERAL
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different, unrelated boxes! WHY? I just want to name a few boxes by
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selecting them, and then running one of 10 scripts that names up to 10
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boxes, picture boxes really.
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I have been struggling with variations on this but have not been successful
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getting this to work, but I don't understand why it won't work! I can't rely
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on the stacking order and need to target these few "marked" boxes out of a
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slew of other boxes.
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I hope someone can explain what is happening here.
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Thanks,
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Steve Kump
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