Re: Appleworks bug and possible workarounds
Re: Appleworks bug and possible workarounds
- Subject: Re: Appleworks bug and possible workarounds
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:38:32 -0400
At 1:37 PM +0200 05/04/04, Brennan wrote:
The trouble with Appleworks is that the scripting implementation is so
broken that you can barely get started. If Apple is expecting bug reports,
all they can hope to get is 'pretty much everything screws up'.
Yup. I'm with you on that assessment. I've never used AppleWorks
before this week, but a colleague was having trouble trying to script
something, so I installed it to have a crack at helping him (I've had
a shrinkwrapped version of AppleWorks on my shelf for 4 years and
never opened it until now).
In any case, it's a mess. For example, in the spreadsheet you can
get the contents of a cell, unless it's the result of a calculation,
in which case you can get the formula, the index, the object
specification, some other number of unknown genesis (but which looks
like it's linked to the object specifier because coercion of the
object specifier to text gives the same number), the text style, and
lots of other useless properties of the cell, but not the value.
Nothing seems to yield the calculation result. The calculated cell,
for example, has a result of 40 in it. If you ' get cell "B7" ' the
number is 10247. Not exactly a match. Other terms like "value of",
"text of", "contents of", etc. don't work either. The ugly workaround
via the clipboard will get the job done, but this shouldn't be
necessary.
I've had a look in the list archives and there's nothing about this.
Looks like few people even bother to script AppleWorks. Not much
wonder.
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