Re: Can't set color of a box in Quark 7.5
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: Eric C Saunders <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 07:26:59 -0400
"Name of" is the part you
are missing.
The following assumes a document open
with 2 picture boxes, each having a different color applied.
tell
application
"QuarkXPress"
tell
document
1
set
x
to
name
of
color
of
picture box
1
--
set x to color of picture box 1 - WRONG. Gives you a color spec.
set
color
of
picture box
2
to
x
end
tell
end
tell
Eric Saunders
Ken Tozier wrote on 05/18/2009 03:07:42 AM:
> 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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