Re: A newbie's problems with Pages and Applescript
Re: A newbie's problems with Pages and Applescript
- Subject: Re: A newbie's problems with Pages and Applescript
- From: "alma-services.abel.co.uk" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:23:59 +0000
On 30 Oct 2010, at 21:43, KOENIG Yvan wrote:
So after a while I got intrigued by applescript. I messed
around with it and came up with something that does the formatting
of my study cards automatically, from a tab delimited RTF text
file. My script is a bit flakey, and only fit for my own use right
now. My problem is I don't know how to get the script to be user-
friendly and open a file that the user chooses, from a dialogue.
Instead, when the script runs, it assumes that the file is already
open in Pages, and called "NiHao Raw.pages". Right now, everything
falls over if it's not there when you click on run. What's the
rick to getting a script to dialogue box and to choose and
successfully open the (rtf) text document in Pages that's been
selected?
...
set le_document to choose file of type
{"com.apple.iwork.Pages.sffPages", "com.apple.iwork.Pages.Pages"}
tell application "Pages"
open le_document
end tell
may be what you need.
Dear Mr. Koenig,
Thank you for replying. Sorry for not getting back sooner: my
moped stalled out and I have to bring it back to the house and clean
the carburettor.
Anyway, I tried out your suggestion... the "Choose a File"
dialogue opens, but unfortunately the "Choose" button is greyed out,
and all items except folders are also greyed out. That's to
say, .pages, .rtf and .txt files (and anything else I care to browse
through!) are all greyed out. I am running on a PPC Mac OS X Leopard
10.5.8 with Pages '08 3.0.1. What am I doing wrong? (Maybe mercury
is in retrograde!)
Regards,
Sandy
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Alexander Anderson <email@hidden>
North Yorkshire, England
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