Re: Making Labels in Quark
Re: Making Labels in Quark
- Subject: Re: Making Labels in Quark
- From: Steve Kump <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:31:50 -0800
Hi Kyle,
Well...I have created a FaceSpan app for my users to associate database
fields to text and picture boxes in Quark. The reason I was looking for
labels was to just provide an elegant way of illustrating which picture
boxes were tagged to particular database fields. The text boxes are easier
enough because I can display the value within the text box itself, and then
replace it later, but picture boxes are more difficult. Basically, I want a
user to be able to quickly look at a template and see that all boxes have
been tagged and which have not.
The old Scriptmaster XT extension used to provide box name labels that
appeared in front of each box that had a name. But I suppose they were
developed through the API when creating the actual extension, so I don't
seem to be able to do something similar with AppleScript. So, I have to use
another trick such as I mentioned.
Thanks anyway,
Steve
On 11/20/02 2:38 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Steve Kump wrote
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> Just wondering if it is possible to create box labels with AppleScript
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> similar in fashion to what ScriptMaster XT uses for box names. I need
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> something to guide my users that won't be deleted. They need to know the
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> names of boxes when designing templates so they interact properly with my
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> scripts.
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Steve: You can certainly assign names to text and picture boxes and then
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create new text boxes to display those names. You can suppress output of those
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boxes and even lock them, though that won't prevent a determined user from
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deleting them.
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But if the purpose of the label is so that users can supply box names to a
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script, why not eliminate the human factor and simply write the script so that
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it extracts the name of the selected box and then does the right thing to it?
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Or display a list of the boxes available in the template?
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\Robert Kyle
>
Star Tribune
>
Minneapolis
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