You're right, that's a bug. Should be fixed in the next nightly build.
You could try doing the same for the selected pubs ("selection"), which should
work already.
Christiaan
On Apr 9, 2010, at 19:26, Fischlin Andreas wrote:
> Dear Christiaan,
>
> There is something odd going on. The same code snippet does sometimes work,
> sometimes not. I do at the moment not understand why. The variant I have
> previously reported on worked for me for a while, but after a restart of
> BibDesk, it did that no more. Your variant never worked on my system.
> Restarting the system seems not to make any difference. Initially neither the
> code by Christiaan nor my variant work. Only after having opened the crashing
> script in AppleSript Editor, saving it once more, does the script work.
>
> If there is no current selection the AppleScript hangs for a very long time
> when executing a statement such as
>
> set theGroupsSelected to (group selection of first document)
>
> If I try to stop the script by clicking on the Stop button in AppleScript
> Editor, after a long while the script ends with "error "User canceled."
> number -128". Any idea what might be going on? A bug in BD's AppleScripting?
>
> I tried a more "defensively" written variant:
>
> tell application "BibDesk"
> set theGroupsSelected to (group selection of first document)
> set theNoOfGroups to (count of theGroupsSelected)
> if theNoOfGroups > 0 then
> set firstGroup to first item of theGroupsSelected
> external of firstGroup
> end if
> end tell
>
> It fails with
>
> error "BibDesk got an error: Can’t get library group id
> \"4071B7B3-0C8E-4C7F-91CA-7979B9ED79F2\" of document \"Some Refs.bib\"."
> number -1728 from library group id "4071B7B3-0C8E-4C7F-91CA-7979B9ED79F2" of
> document "Some Refs.bib"
>
> at the execution of the external statement.
>
> Once I encountered this error a few times. Suddenly the very same script
> succeeds and correctly reports the external status of the current selection.
>
> Could there be some not properly inited internal variables? Should I file a
> bug report?
>
> I am using latest nightly build of BibDesk, i.e. Version 1.5.1 (1816).
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
> On 09/Apr/2010, at 14:45 , Fischlin Andreas wrote:
>
> Christiaan,
>
> Thanks. However, for the record, your code snippet throws an error:
>
> error "BibDesk got an error: Can’t get group selection." number -1728 from
> group selection
>
> However
>
> tell application "BibDesk"
> external of (get first item of (get group selection of first document))
> end tell
>
> works.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
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> On 09/Apr/2010, at 13:39 , Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> tell application "BibDesk"
> external of (get first item of group selection)
> end tell
>
> Christiaan
>
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 13:29, Fischlin Andreas wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> What is the best way to determine in an AppleScript that current selection is
> with external publications? I guess something similar to this
>
> tell application "BibDesk"
> set theBibDeskDocu to first document
> set thePubs to selection of theBibDeskDocu
> if thePubs is not {} then
> tell theBibDeskDocu
> tell first item of thePubs
> set theCiteKey to get cite key
> set selectionIsExternal to theCiteKey is "cite-key"
> end tell
> end tell
> end if
> end tell
>
> is not the proper method to determine the value of selectionIsExternal. Is
> there a better one?
>
> Thanks for your help and cooperation.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Andreas Fischlin
>
> ETH Zurich
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