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Re: Can't set color of a box in Quark 7.5
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Re: Can't set color of a box in Quark 7.5


  • Subject: Re: Can't set color of a box in Quark 7.5
  • From: Jan Bultereys <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:02:53 +0200
  • Thread-topic: Can't set color of a box in Quark 7.5

Hi Ken,

Try this:

tell application "QuarkXPress Passport"
    tell document 1
        set x to "Yellow"
        tell current box
            set color to x
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

Best regards,jan




> From: Ken Tozier <email@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 03:07:42 -0400
> To: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
> Subject: Can't set color of a box in Quark 7.5
>
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to set the background color of a text box in Quark 7.5 and
> am getting the following error on the word "color"
>
> QuarkXPress got an error: Unknown object type.
>
> Here's the script
>
> tell application "QuarkXPress"
> tell document 1
> set x to color spec "Yellow"
> end tell
>
> tell current box
> set color to x
> end tell
> end tell
>
> If I manually set the color through the color palette and do
>
> tell application "QuarkXPress"
> tell current box
> set x to color
> end tell
> end tell
>
> Quark gives me a color spec but if I immediately try to set the color
> to the spec it just gave me, I get the above error
>
> tell application "QuarkXPress"
> tell current box
> set x to color
> set color to x
> end tell
> end tell
>
> Is this a known bug in Quark 7.5? Is there any workaround?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
>
>
>
>
>
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