Setting the selection of a document via AppleScript
Setting the selection of a document via AppleScript
- Subject: Setting the selection of a document via AppleScript
- From: "Timothy J. Wood" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:49:07 -0700
I'm working on updating OmniObjectMeter to work with Xcode 2.1.
One of the things we need to be able to do is to open a file and
select a particular _line_ (i.e., I don't know the character range
off hand).
Rather than take the old approach of having a bundle that gets
loaded into Xcode and that uses shady API, I'd rather use AppleScript
to do the work. I'm not sure if this is possible though. I can do:
tell application "Xcode"
open file "Extra:private:tmp:foo.m"
set MyDoc to text document "foo.m"
selection of MyDoc
end tell
--> text 5 thru 8 of text document "foo.m"
If I then try to evaluate the expression 'text 5 thru 8 of text
document "foo.m"', I get an error.
If I try 'select text 5 thru 8 of text document "foo.m"', I get an
error. All the other variants I have tried give pretty much useless
errors (par for the course with AppleScript).
What I'd like to do is:
select line 1 of text document "foo.m"
Naturally, that leads to another error :)
Also acceptable would be a URL form that specified the path and
line or character range to select :)
Any hints?
-tim
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