Re: Weird behavior of text in Pages
Re: Weird behavior of text in Pages
- Subject: Re: Weird behavior of text in Pages
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:21:34 -0400
On Jul 29, 2014, at 18:27 , Stockly, Ed <email@hidden> wrote:
> Has this been resolved?
>
> I ask because I've noticed something similar (but different) in BBEdit. If
> it define the TIDs inside {} and then coerce a list to text, it acts as if
> there TIDs are empty. In your handler you're not using the {} and I'm
> wondering if you would get a different result if you did.
>
>
> my tid(return)
>
> on tid(x)
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {x}
> end tid
>
No, including the curly brackets does not fix the problem.
As Yvan mentioned, we talked and he proposed some solutions.
I had a workaround before I submitted the question.
I looked at Yvan’s solutions and had some ideas to see if I could get the text items.
I tried
tell app “Pages”
…
tell me to set tt to tt as text
…
That is having the text be defined by AppleScript rather than Pages.
It did not work.
I tried setting the clipboard to the text and then working with the clipboard (inside Tell “Pages”).
It did not work.
Finally I tried working with the error dialog
…
on error e
get the text from e and try to get its text items
end try
…
It still did not work!!!!
Mine, as well as Yvan’s requires that the text be processed in a handler outside the tell block.
This happens with text captured in Pages, not Pages 09.
I am still puzzled at this behavior and can not tell if this is a “feature” or a bug!!!
By the way, my solution is as follows:
tell application "Pages" to tell document 1
repeat with l from 1 to count every text item
if exists object text of text item l then ---if object text of text item l contains "Phone:" then
my tid(return)
set tt to (paragraphs of (get object text of text item l))
set tt to my gettxtitms(tt)
…
on gettxtitms(tt)
set tt to (tt as string)
my tid(return & return)
return text items of tt
end gettxtitms
on tid(x)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {x}
end tid
{} after your suggestion.
Deivy Petrescu
email@hidden
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