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Re: setting insertion point at a line
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Re: setting insertion point at a line


  • Subject: Re: setting insertion point at a line
  • From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:45:16 -0700
  • Thread-topic: setting insertion point at a line

On Wed, 24 May 2006 23:45:14 -0700, Phil Aaronson <email@hidden> said:
>Hi All,
>
>I've been trying to write an Applescript to open a project, open a
>file in the project and set the cursor to a particular line. The
>closest I've been able to come is to set the insertion point by
>character, but not by line:
>
>tell application "Xcode"
> open theProject
> activate
> open file theFile
> activate
> set selection of text document 1 to insertion point 1 of text
>document 1
>end tell
>
>I'd appreciate any pointers. Applescript and I aren't exactly the
>best of friends :)

This may be a silly way to do it, but it does work:

display dialog "What line?" default answer "1"
set n to text returned of result as integer
tell application "Xcode"
    tell text document 1
        set s to (get text of it)
        set len to length of text from paragraph 1 to paragraph n of s
        set selection to insertion point (len + 1)
    end tell
end tell

That puts the insertion point at the end of the requested line. m.

--
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