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Re: Missing something obvious


  • Subject: Re: Missing something obvious
  • From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:20:50 -0500

On Dec 12, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Mark Ratledge wrote:

> Tried all those property selectors in Pages; no difference. "set the_url to contents of «class pSel» of document 1"  works fine outside of the if else loop. The problem is still with the if else loop; the script blows right by it.
>
>
> set the_title to the clipboard
>
> tell application "System Events"
> 	set myApp to name of first application process whose frontmost is true
>
> 	if myApp is "Pages" then
> 		tell application "Pages"
> 			set the_url to the selection as text
> 		end tell
>
> 	else if myApp is "BBEdit" then
> 		tell application "BBEdit"
> 			set the_url to the selection
> 		end tell
> 	else
> 		return
> 	end if
> end tell
>
>
> set the_text to " <a href=\"" & the_url & "\" title=\"" & the_title & "\" class=\"external\">" & the_title & "</a>"
>
> set the clipboard to the_text
>



I may be missing something, but except for the point raised by Yvan, your script works fine.
And, it is not that it has a problem, Yvan just corrected your expectation.

What are you expecting?


Deivy Petrescu
email@hidden



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