Re: TextEdit script
Re: TextEdit script
- Subject: Re: TextEdit script
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:32:11 -0700
- Thread-topic: TextEdit script
On 7/18/05 6:55 AM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2005, at 5:08 AM, B2 Fass-Holmes wrote:
>
>>
>> Could someone please explain to me what is defective in the
>> following AppleScript and what needs to be changed so that it
>> functions properly when I select text in TextEdit and execute the
>> script?
>
> The defect is in TextEdit; there is no selection property. However,
> if there were, it would be a property of the text of the window (or
> maybe of the window itself), not of the application.
Actually, most applications that have a selection property do implement it
as a property of the application. (Check Finder, Text Edit-Plus, Text
Wrangler, Microsoft Word, Entourage, etc.) That's consistent with the fact
that some applications allow only one contiguous selection at a time,
usually in the front window. Even other apps that do allow selection in
multiple windows or documents simultaneously, and implement selection as a
property of window or document, most often still implement selection of the
application to mean the active selection in the front window.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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