On 4/21/19 at 11:11 AM, [email protected] (F. Alfredo
Rego) wrote:
I have explored everywhere I can, but I can’t find any way to
DESELECT/UNSELECT selected text.
There is no concept of "unselecting", because there is always a
selection, even if it's empty (an insertion point).
I’m particularly interested in including a “deselect all” in a script
like this, which leaves the entire contents of the “Prototype” file
selected and highlighted after I have copied the “Prototype” file to
the “Release” file.
You can avoid the whole issue by not using the clipboard. :-)
(In general, you shouldn't use the clipboard to pass data around
within a script.)
There are a couple of things that will help you write faster and
more reliable scripts:
- the "open" verb always returns a reference to the document
that was opened;
- the contents of any text document are available as text. This
is the "text" property.
So, your first tell block will look something like this:
set openedDocument to (open file "...")
set documentText to text of openedDocument
Then you can manipulate "documentText", and finally:
set documentToRewrite to (open file "...")
set text of documentToRewrite to documentText
R.
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