Re: Unable to send user input string to Webster Dictionary Application using variable
Re: Unable to send user input string to Webster Dictionary Application using variable
- Subject: Re: Unable to send user input string to Webster Dictionary Application using variable
- From: Geoff Graham <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:29:58 -0400
This is what you're sending to MW:
"\"rabbit\""
but you say this works:
"rabbit"
Have you tried not using either of the set statements and just send
answer right as it is returned from the dialog? (Of course I don't
have MW)
Geoff
On Aug 18, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Window Pen wrote:
Does anyone see my error? This is my first post and my first attempt
at writing a script in AppleScript.
I'm trying to send words I want to look up via the script instead of
waiting for the desktop application to open.
Websters receives the look up word only if directly quoted in the
script. I want to send the lookup word by variable containing the
user input.
Is this an encoding problem, unicode to ASCII? If so how do you
specify the encoding to such an old (2003) application?
Much thanks in advance.
display dialog "Look up " default answer "" with title "Webster's"
set dialogInfo to result
set answer to text returned of dialogInfo
tell application "Merriam-Webster"
activate
--set answer to (quote & answer & quote) as string -- sends var in
quotes but does not place input in application
--set answer to "rabbit" as string --works for "rabbit" but not
for "answer" incorporating user input
MWClearPaste answer
end tell
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary Version 3.0 (Copyright 2003)
Script Editor Version 2.1.2 (82.1)
OS X Version 10.4.11
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