Re: Current Web Page (Paste) & Current Selected text

[Chris Cairns]

Here is a script that does a *fair* job of grabbing text from "any" application(cocoa or non-cocoa), not just firefox. However, if you are planning to use it with Firefox, remember to set a proper hotkey (e.g. avoid the option key which makes firefox launch in safe mode)

(This is what I have gathered from one of the posts in   Macscripter:
QS accept characters whose ASCII codes are 01 through 127.
A string which contains a accented character doesn't work)

The script below replaces problematic characters with "?".


tell application "System Events"

end tell

tell application theApp
        tell application "System Events"
                tell process theApp
                        delay 0.2

--alternatively, you can use:
--keystroke "c" using command down
                end tell
        end tell
end tell
delay 0.2
set cb to quoted form of (the clipboard as string)

set {name:theApp, bundle identifier:theIdentifier} to (get 1st application process whose frontmost is true) click menu item "Copy" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Edit" of menu bar 1 do shell script "/bin/echo " & cb & " | /usr/bin/tr -c '[:print:] [:cntrl:]' '?' | qs "

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