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Re: Automator Newbie Question - Automator Crashing on simple script
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Re: Automator Newbie Question - Automator Crashing on simple script


  • Subject: Re: Automator Newbie Question - Automator Crashing on simple script
  • From: Richard Kendall Wolf <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:55:36 -0600

Surprisingly, I am able to reproduce your error.

Here is the reason why it's happening ...

Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[NSConcreteAttributedString getCharacters:range:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x400a73060'
terminate called throwing an exception

Basically, the NSAttributedString class cluster does not respond to the getCharacters:range selector. This is a programming bug on Apple's end ... there is nothing you can do to fix it.  If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say the "Speak Text" action has code that looks like this:

allchars = [userAttributedString getCharacters:buffer range:everyChar];

but which should read:

allchars = [[userAttributedString string] getCharacters:buffer range:everyChar];

The NSString class -does- respond to getCharacters:inRange and is probably what Apple meant.

I would report this as a bug to Apple.

On Jan 24, 2013, at 12:23 PM, dealTek <email@hidden> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I just joined the list.
>
> using ML 10.8.2
>
> I'm testing out Automator for the first time and the simple test I am doing crashes.
>
> It is a  a simple 2 step process:
>
> - Get contents of clipboard
> -  text to audio file ( save on desktop with unique name -  system voice is Bruce)
>
> -  I have a paragraph of text in the clipboard and when I run this is simply crashes. It does leave an audio file on the desktop but it is only 4K in size and does not have any audio
>
> Q: any ideas how to get this working?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Dave - DealTek
> email@hidden
> [db-3]
>
>
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