Re: AppleWorks 6: how do you set text style?
Re: AppleWorks 6: how do you set text style?
- Subject: Re: AppleWorks 6: how do you set text style?
- From: "Dale Gillard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:19:07 +1000
Hi Donald and Mr Tea
Another useful way to work out how to manipulate text in AppleWorks is to
find the properties of a selection (see below). Script Editor's result
window will show a lot of info about the selectio, helping you can to
work out how to change the properties.
tell application "AppleWorks 6"
get properties of selection
end tell
Cheers
Dale
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:12:00 -0700,
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Subject: Re: AppleWorks 6: how do you set text style?
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From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
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To: AS Users <email@hidden>
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This from Donald Hall - dated 26/9/03 7:15 am:
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> How do I make paragraph 1 bold (or any other style for that matter)?
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Hi, Donald
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Adapting from your script....
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set theText to "The beginning." & return & "The end."
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tell application "AppleWorks 6"
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activate
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set theDoc to make new document with data theText
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tell front document
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tell paragraph 1
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set size to 24
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set style to {class:text style info, on styles:{bold, underline}}
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end tell
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end tell
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end tell
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The AW dictionary also allows for 'off styles' to be set, but you don't
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need
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that, just set the on styles and every other style will be off by default
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(eg, on styles:{plain} restores text to an unstyled state.)
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A good way to approach this sort of 'how do I find out the syntax'
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problem
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is to get the existing paramaters of the element you want to manipulate -
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ie, do something like this in a 'feeler' version of the script...
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tell application "AppleWorks 6"
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activate
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set theDoc to make new document with data "Test"
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tell paragraph 1 of document 1
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set styl to style
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end tell
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end tell
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Your script editor's results window can be very informative in this kind
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of
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situation.
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Nick
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pp Mr Tea
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