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Re: replacing selected text in a document
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Re: replacing selected text in a document


  • Subject: Re: replacing selected text in a document
  • From: "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:29:14 +0100

David Rice wrote on Tue, 15 May 2007 19:23:57 -0400:

>on process(_str)
>	tell application "System Events"
>		set _appname to name of first process whose frontmost is true
>	end tell
>	tell application _appname
>		set _str to "[" & _str & "]"
>		display alert "String: " & _str
>		set the clipboard to _str
>		paste
>	end tell
>end process
>
>If TextEdit is the top application and I have made a selection, the
>alert that TextEdit displays shows that the clipboard has been set to
>_str.
>How  do I paste the contents of the clipboard in place of the
>selected text?

In this case - with TextEdit, at least - it would be easier to get System
Events to type the text, which would overwrite TextEdit's selection.

  on process(_str)
    set _str to "[" & _str & "]"

    -- Assuming that TextEdit is frontmost with
    -- a selection in its front document...
    tell application "System Events"
      keystroke _str
    end tell
  end process


NG

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