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Re: Setting the selection of a document via AppleScript


  • Subject: Re: Setting the selection of a document via AppleScript
  • From: Scott Tooker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:11:52 -0700


On Jun 15, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Timothy J. Wood wrote:



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?


You can set the character range using the following syntax:

set selection of text document 1 to {2, 5}

(where 2 and 5 are the starting and ending character positions of the selection)


You can set the selection to an insertion point using the following syntax:


set selection of text document 1 to insertion point 5 of text document 1

(where insertion point n falls before character n)


As far as selecting a line goes, you should be be able to use the following:


set selection of text document 1 to paragraph 20 of contents of text document 1

Scott




-tim

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