Re: Moving Text from TextEdit to Word
Re: Moving Text from TextEdit to Word
- Subject: Re: Moving Text from TextEdit to Word
- From: Jeffrey Berman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:16:30 -0500
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Michael Terry <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 10/21/02 8:03 PM, "Jeffrey Berman" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I'm having difficulty in what I thought would be a simple process of copying
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> text of a TextEdit document into a document in Microsoft Word.
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Anything's simple once you know how.
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> tell application "TextEdit" to get text of document 1
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> tell application "Microsoft Word" to set text of document 1 to result
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> produces the error message:
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> Microsoft Word got an error: Can't set every text of document 1 to "boo".
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> I noticed that the result returned from TextEdit had a class of Unicode
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> text. But the same error message occurs even if I coerce the text from
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> TextEdit to a string as in:
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> tell application "TextEdit" to get text of document 1 as string
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> tell application "Microsoft Word" to set text of document 1 to result
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< s n i p >
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tell application "TextEdit" to set x to text of document 1
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set x to (x as record)'s <<class ktxt>> as string
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tell application "Microsoft Word" to set text of document 1 to x
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Yes, the problem is the unicode text, but you didn't coerce it hard enough.
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You have to put a lot more effort into it.
Mike:
Thanks for helping me. The following works without error:
tell application "TextEdit" to get text of document 1
get <<class ktxt>> of (result as record)
tell application "Microsoft Word" to set text of document 1 to result
As for my understanding why, well, I'm still working on that. I see that
when the text property from TextEdit is coerced to a record, the record has
two labeled properties, <<class ktxt>> and <<class ksty>>, with the first
containing the text as a string. Is there any documentaton that might help
me understand these raw syntax terms and how TextEdit uses them for the text
property?
-Jeffrey Berman
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