Re: newbie text manipulation
Re: newbie text manipulation
- Subject: Re: newbie text manipulation
- From: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:46:02 -0400
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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 08:02:05 -0500
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Subject: Re: newbie text manipulation
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From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
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None of the commands you used belong to the Finder. Why do you feel the
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need to put this into a Finder tell block and activate the Finder? Not to
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mention if the Finder happens to be busy or something, this could cause your
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script to pause while it waits on the Finder to respond. Not good.
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All you need is this:
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set the clipboard to the time string of (current date)
Yet again... ;-)
Like I said, one often has to activate an application in order to
use the clipboard commands. It has to do with the fact that applications
tend to "own" the clipboard while they are frontmost, and they don't
always "check" to see if changes have been made, (or something like that).
Arthur J. Knapp
http://www.stellarvisions.com
mailto:email@hidden
Hey, check out:
http://homepage.mac.com/richard23/