Re: Assigning Quark color spec - Tiger->Leopard
Re: Assigning Quark color spec - Tiger->Leopard
- Subject: Re: Assigning Quark color spec - Tiger->Leopard
- From: Eric C Saunders <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:41:21 -0500
Dan,
Change
> set cs to color spec "Yellow"
to
set cs to "Yellow"
--or--
remove
> set cs to color spec "Yellow"
and change
> set color of frame to cs
to
set color of frame to "Yellow"
HTH
Eric Saunders
On 01/08/2009 at 11:28:40 AM Daniel.Turney wrote:
> Using Quark 7.3 and 7.5 under OS X 10.4.11, this code works fine:
>
> tell application "QuarkXPress"
> make new document at beginning
> tell document 1
> set cs to color spec "Yellow"
> tell page 1
> make new text box at beginning with properties {bounds:{"0",
"0",
> "11\"", "8.5\""}}
> tell text box 1
> set width of frame to 2.0
> set color of frame to cs
> end tell
> end tell
> end tell
> end tell
>
> It produces a text box with a yellow frame.
>
> Under 10.5.5 (in fact 10.5.x I think) the same code produces the
> message "QuarkXPress got an error: Unknown object type."
with "set
> color of frame to cs" highlighted.
>
> If I split that line in two:
>
> tell text box 1
> set f to frame
> set color of f to cs
> end tell
>
> No error message appears but the color of the frame remains
> unchanged. Has anyone experienced this or produced a work-around?
>
> Thanks very much...
>
> - Dan _______________________________________________
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