| I don't have illustrator at home and I have Tiger at work, so I can't test this, but:
Put this in your script upstream of the error.
tell application "Adobe Illustrator" if colorType is "process color" then set colorType to process color end if end tell
It should work, since the phrase process color is an application key word, this would change the string into the keyword.
Another option would be to use a script object to translate the string to the keyword.
HTH,
ES
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:10 AM, David Jacopille <email@hidden> wrote:
10.6 appears to have a problem evaluating strings using 'run script' that 10.4 and 10.5 did not have. The example is Illustrator, but, correct me if I'm wrong, this is a generic problem or difference with 10.6.
If I were to hard code what I want to do in the script it would look like this, which creates a new spot color swatch as expected:
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
make new document
tell document 1 to make new spot with properties {name:"Light Yellow", color:{cyan:0, magenta:0, yellow:25, black:0}, color type: process color}
end tell
Note that the value of name is class 'text' and is in quotes, but the value of color type is not in quotes - it is an Adobe Illustrator enumeration.
But I don't want to hard code enumerated values in my script - I want my parameters to come from an XML file or database which means it has to be stored as a string. This simulates what I want to do:
set color_type to "process color"
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
make new document
tell document 1 to make new spot with properties {name:"Light Yellow", color:{cyan:0, magenta:0, yellow:25, black:0}, color type:(run script color_type)}
end tell
Works great in 10.4 and 10.5. In 10.6 this results in "Adobe Illustrator got an error: An error of type -30002 has occurred."
Any ideas about how to evaluate strings to enumerators in 10.6?
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