Re: Text preview
Re: Text preview
- Subject: Re: Text preview
- From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 10:58:53 -0700
How much text are you looking to display?
At its simplest level, there's the venerable 'display dialog' which will
display short strings in a regular dialog. I'm not entirely sure of the
limit of a display dialog's text but it might be enough.
Failing that, there are a number of OSAXen that will do the job.
24U's Appearance OSAX (
http://www.24usoftware.com/info.php?ID=4 ), for
example, contains a 'message window' object that can display an arbitrary
amount of text in a simple window over any app:
set theText to read file "Macintosh HD:somefile.txt"
set theWindow to create message window theText
And you can get a lot more sophisticated if you need to.
There are undoubtedly other OSAXen that perform similar tasks.
Andrew
:)
On 5/16/03 10:02 AM, "Michael Grant" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I'd like to write a Big Cat script to view text files without launching any
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application (including Terminal, but I'll assume that the Finder is
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running). I thought of swapping out the clipboard and using the Finder's
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Show Clipboard command, but I can't find a programmatic equivalent in the
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Finder's dictionary. I suppose I could use GUI scripting, but I'd rather
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avoid it if there's an alternative. Messing with the clipboard is getting
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pretty hackish anyway. It would be pretty easy to just create a window with
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a text field in AS Studio, but then we're back to launching an app and I
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might as well just open the file in BBEdit or whatever.
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Am I overlooking anything obvious?
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Thanks,
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Michael
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