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Re: AS in TextExpander with user interaction
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Re: AS in TextExpander with user interaction

  • Subject: Re: AS in TextExpander with user interaction
  • From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 22:10:10 -0500
The problem is that the application I'm actually writing in (I tested with BBEdit but I want the snippet to be available anywhere) is not the same as the application where the script is run (TextExpander.) If I don't explicitly call an app to show choose file, I either don't see the dialog, or the result doesn't get passed back to the original application, or both.

For now I've gotten it to work by using Keyboard Maestro instead of TextExpander.

Thanks,
Michael

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Christopher Stone <email@hidden> wrote:
On Sep 06, 2015, at 12:25, Michael Grant <email@hidden> wrote:
I'm trying to write an AS snippet that allows the user to insert the contents of an arbitrary text file, but I'm having trouble 1) giving focus to the choose file dialog and then 2) returning focus to the original application for the expansion.
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Hey Michael,

Don't step out of the app-context you're already in, and you don't have to worry about returning to it.

tell application (path to frontmost application as text)
  choose file
end tell

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Best Regards,
Chris


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