Re: newbie text manipulation
Re: newbie text manipulation
- Subject: Re: newbie text manipulation
- From: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:41:46 -0400
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Subject: Re: newbie text manipulation
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 23:58:25 -0700
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From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
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On 6/5/01 5:55 PM, email@hidden <email@hidden> wrote:
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> tell application "Finder"
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> activate
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> set the clipboard to the time string of (current date)
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> end tell
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You don't need to tell the Finder; in fact, it's better not to tell the
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Finder. It's an OSAX, and the Finder doesn't get involved at all with it.
That's not entirely true with regards to the clipboard commands. It is
often nessesary to actiave an app to work with the clipboard. This is
discussed in the documentation to Jon's Commands:
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http://www.seanet.com/~jonpugh/JonsCommandsDocs.html>
Arthur J. Knapp
http://www.stellarvisions.com
mailto:email@hidden
Hey, check out:
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http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/InterproCom/AppleScriptScripters
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