At 4:30 PM -0500 6/22/11, Christopher Stone sent
email regarding Re: First Line of Selection?:
On Jun 22, 2011, at 10:52, Warren Michelsen wrote:
Now then, I seem to be having a problem using
AS to select the first line of a document's
selection. I've tried all kinds of things up
to:
set my_line to paragraph 1 of the selection
of text document 1 of text window 1
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Hey Warren,
It appears that you want to 'get' rather than
'select' the first line of the selection.
Ummm..., once I've gotten it, where is it if I don't set something equal to it?
How does one set a variable to the first line
of the selected text of the front-most BBEdit
document window?
It's easy once you figure out which object to
reference which is not always straightforward in
Applescript. :)
tell application "BBEdit"
try
tell text of front text window
set my_line to line 1 of selection
end tell
Seems strange telling something to the text. Very Object Oriented.
on error errMsg number errNum
set sep to "=============================="
set e to sep & return & "Error: " & errMsg & return & sep & return ¬
& "Error Number: " & errNum & return & sep
beep
display dialog e
end try
end tell
The new best practice with BBEdit is to
reference the 'text of the front text window'.
Note that the code above will only provide a
reference to the line object and not the
contents thereof.
Noted.
tell application "BBEdit"
tell text of front text window
set my_line to contents of line 1 of selection
end tell
end tell
Or as a one-liner:
tell application "BBEdit" to set my_line to
contents of line 1 of selection of text of front
text window
That's what I changed to from:
tell application "BBEdit"
activate -- not taking any chances...
select text window 1
set the_text to the selection
set my_line to line 1 of the_text as text
end tell
HTH.
It does.
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Best Regards,
Chris
Back atcha.
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