Hi all,
Heureka, problem solved! :-) :-) :-)
Thanks for all the help. Indeed Christiaan's hint to specify the file
outside any tell block did the trick and I got it working exactly as I
wanted. A small snippet (my script is much more elaborate) for anyone
possibly struggling with the same difficulties I can now state firmly,
it works:
set theOutPFN to POSIX file "/Volumes/HD/uaf/Data Bases/AFs
Lit/refs.xml" -- done outside any tell block!!!!
tell application "BibDesk"
set theBibDeskDocu to first document
set thePubs to selection of theBibDeskDocu
tell theBibDeskDocu
export for thePubs using template "My EndNote XML" to theOutPFN
end tell
end tell
However, one caveat remains: The template is a custom template I have
named "My EndNote XML" specified as the main page using BibDesk's
Template preference settings. Using merely the built in "EndNote XML"
(don't know whether that is really of the same kind) fails (thanks for
that hint as well, Christiaan).
Regards,
Andreas
P.S.: Thanks for the teaching Christiaan, greatly appreciated. Although
I am an experienced programmer, strongly typed languages such as
Modula-2 are my favorites (I'm teachnig at ETH Zurich, ;-) ), all
probably the reason why AppleScript confuses me regularly (my experience
concur's with Will's).
Christiaan Hofman wrote:
On Jul 28, 2009, at 10:00 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
On 07/28/09 12:40, "Andreas Fischlin" <[email protected]>
wrote:
I believe I considered these things already, but to cut a long
story even
shorter ( ;-) ), can you write an AppleScript statement with
BibDesk's command
'export' that works? I know of none, regardlesss of file
specifications and
came to the conclusion the command is defunct (BibDesk bug?).
Thanks, should you know of one and send me one. One example would
already make
me quite happy. ;-)
The automatic RSS export script on the wiki does this, doesn't it?
tell theDoc
export using template theTemplateName to theFile
end tell
Yes, as I said, look at the sample scripts. The export command just
works. There's no BibDesk bug, your conclusion is wrong. If it does
not work for you, you're just doing it wrong.
Again, what you need to learn is how to create file references, and in
that respect AppleScript (not BibDesk) is rather messy and buggy. So I
advice you to first play around with file references first in some
test scripts to see what works, how they work, and what does not work
(no need to use BibDesk). You will find that this won't work:
set theFile to file "disk:path:to:a:file"
while this works for an exisiting file:
set theFile to alias "disk:path:to:file"
and these works for any file (need not exist), but only outside a tell
block:
set theFile to file specification "disk:path:to:a:file"
set theFile to POSIX file "/path/to/a/file"
Again, my recommendation is the last form. If you want to use the last
two forms inside a tell block you should prepend by the keyword "my".
You can also get a file object using the "choose file" command.
Anyway: any of this has nothing to do with BibDesk, it's built-in
AppleScript support.
Christiaan
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