On Jul 29, 2009, at 9:31 PM, Andreas Fischlin wrote:
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!!!!
If you need to use this inside the tell block, you can also say (I
also removed some unnecessary path components):
set theOutPFN to my POSIX file "/uaf/Data Bases/AFs Lit/refs.xml"
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.
Instead of registering a template you can define the template in
AppleScript (as a string variable) and pass it as the "using text"
parameter instead of the "using template" parameter.
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).
EndNote XML is not a template name, it's just a normal save type. The
"export" script command is used only with templates.
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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