Re: Applescript Newbie - OS9 to OSX
Re: Applescript Newbie - OS9 to OSX
- Subject: Re: Applescript Newbie - OS9 to OSX
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:23:56 -0800
- Thread-topic: Applescript Newbie - OS9 to OSX
On 12/6/05 10:03 AM, "Emery Wilson" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I have been using an Applescript, written by someone else, which basically
> takes email text and strips out the unwanted copy. These are for business
> card orders, so a form is filled out then sent to me, and the script I run
> opens the file in Text Edit and converts some of the text to spaces. I am
> running OS 9 with this script
Huh? TextEdit doesn't exist in OS 9. (And SimpleText is not scriptable.)
If you mean Tex-Edit Plus (which is _much_ more scriptable), a version does
exist in OS X, and is just as scriptable. You'd always need to check it
over, but its AppleScript dictionary is almost the same, so the script might
just work.
> and would like to be able to use it in OS X.
> However, simply copying the script and opening it in OSX script editor
> doesn't work,
What doesn't work? The script doesn't open at all in Script Editor? Or it
opens but doesn't run?
> it seems some of the commands are not the same? I really have
> never done any scripting before, I have spent some time reading the help
> menus etc. looking for a solution but can't come up with it. Any advice on
> how to proceed, how to convert scripts from OS 9 to X, anything would help
> at this point.
Nobody can help if you're not a lot more specific. Describe what you're
doing and where it goes wrong. We don't even know which app you're trying to
script here. If it's Tex-Edit Plus, have you downloaded the current OS X
version from its website? That would be a first step. Does the script then
open in Script Editor? If you try to run it and it errors, what exactly
errors? What's the error message? Which line is highlighted? Paste and copy
the script, or at least from the beginning to the errored line.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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