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Weird "tell" invocation problem and "log" problem
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Weird "tell" invocation problem and "log" problem


  • Subject: Weird "tell" invocation problem and "log" problem
  • From: David Hoerl <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:04:09 -0500

I have three Services using a Run Script object that is virtually the same. The Service lets users send an iWork document as an email attachment converted to the MS format corresponding to the specific iWork app.

1) tell issue

So what's weird is the Service works fine when run from Automator, but fails when run from the Services menu.

I finally tracked it down to this:

set myApp to "Pages"
...
tell application myApp
...

For some reason this usages fails in the Service, works in Automator. Can anyone explain why?

2) logging

If I do this:

  log "Call pages"
  tell application "Pages"
    log "Hah! Inside pages"

Console shows the first log statement, but not the second. Is there someway to get "log" to work in a tell block?

David



PS: the error in 1:

1/13/13 9:48:54.293 AM com.apple.automator.xpc.workflowServiceRunner[11708]: WorkflowServiceRunner received error running Workflow Service at /Volumes/Data/Users/dhoerl/Library/Services/Tester.workflow: The action “Run AppleScript” encountered an error.
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