Re: Insertion Point in Quark
Re: Insertion Point in Quark
- Subject: Re: Insertion Point in Quark
- From: Hans Haesler <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:44:45 +0100
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Frank Renner wrote:
>I can easily get the "position" (i.e. 105/113) of the selection with:
>
>get (offset of first character of selection) + 1
>get (offset of last character of selection) + 1
>
>If the selection is an insertion point, this does not work anymore:
>
>insertion point after character 104 of text flow 1 of text box 41 of
>document "myDoc" of application "QuarkXPress Passport"
Frank,
what version of QuarkXPress are you using? With QXP 4.11 this works:
---
tell document 1 of application "QuarkXPress 4.11"
tell selection
if contents is not "" then
set firstChar to (offset of character 1) + 1
set lastChar to (offset of character -1) + 1
else
set firstChar to offset + 1
set lastChar to firstChar
end if
end tell
end tell
{firstChar, lastChar}
-->{105, 105}
But I fear that you're using QXP 6.x where the offset of the
insertion point isn't available easily. Here is a workaround.
But you'll need the Scripting Addition "Satimage.osax".
The script tries to get the 'text style range' of the selection.
This generates an error message which is trapped and queried:
---
tell document 1 of application "QuarkXPress 6.5"
if contents of selection is not "" then
set firstChar to (offset of character 1 of selection) + 1
set lastChar to (offset of character -1 of selection) + 1
else
set objRef to object reference of selection
try
set tsr to text style range of objRef
on error errMsg
set firstChar to ((change "(.*)(character )([0-9]+)(.*)" into ¬
"\\3" in errMsg with regexp) as integer) + 1
set lastChar to firstChar
end try
end if
end tell
{firstChar, lastChar}
-->{105, 105}
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---
Hans Haesler <email@hidden>
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