Newbie with problems
Newbie with problems
- Subject: Newbie with problems
- From: Sverker Hahn <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:26:00 +0100
Hi, list!
I am an almost complete newbie to AppleScript. FileMaker developer
for years, I thought AS should be not so hard to learn, but ...
Reading the first articles of Bill Briggs series on AppleScript in
MacWorld (hi, Bill, saw your post some days ago) but now I encounter
big problems.
1/ Impossible to create dialogs. Just the simple
display dialog "Hello world"
results in an error, telling me "a identifier can4t go after this
identifier", highlighting the words "display dialog"
2/ In Graphic Converter there is a supplied AS, which doesn4t work:
-- Sample script for GraphicConverter
tell application "GraphicConverter"
activate
change colors of window 1 to bit depth 8 with dither and grayscale
rotate window 1 to angle 90
set image dimension of window 1 to {200, 200}
end tell
gives the error message "the application "Graphic Converter" doesn4t
understand the vissa object message", highlighting the right hand
quotation mark around "Graphic Converter".
I use
swedish MacOS 9.1 on PM 4400.
ScriptEditor and AppleScript S1-1.5.5
I have tried to download later versions of AS, but those works only
with english OS.
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Any recommended modern books on AppleScript for beginners?
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Sverker Hahn
Kudu Data
www.kududata.com
email@hidden
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