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Re: Unable to send user input string to Webster Dictionary Application using variable
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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 11:47:09 -0400

Perhaps "answer" is a keyword in the Webster app. My favorite variable name is "x"; you don't see that used too often. Otherwise it's a bit puzzling. You shouldn't have to, but you could try casting it as a string. I only say that because you got it to work with a literal:

set answer to (text returned of (display dialog "Look up " default answer "" with title "Webster's") as string)

geoff

On Aug 18, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Window Pen wrote:

Both Script 1 and 2 compile, but Script 1 like my original script accepts the user input before Webster application is called to open and I like that.

The problem remains that it doesn't work. No string is passed into Wesbster's. The text box remains blank. (Unless we go back to "rabbit" and that defeats the whole purpose.)

I've enclosed the description of the Webster's command.

The MWClearPaste is defined as:

MWClearPaste v : Clears and sets the supplied string in the entry field for lookup in current reference.
MWClearPaste string : String to lookup.




Script 1
set answer to text returned of (display dialog "Look up " default answer "" with title "Webster's")
tell application "Merriam-Webster"
activate
MWClearPaste answer
end tell



Script 2
tell application "Merriam-Webster"
activate
MWClearPaste text returned of (display dialog "Look up " default answer "" with title "Webster's")
end tell








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