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Re: Naming Quark boxes - screwed up!
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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

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