Two remarks:
1. It seems to me that the following scriptlet is not a
proper Apple Script:
"set stxt to the clipboard as styled text
set stxtRecord to another data of stxt but type is record
set txt to <<class ktxt>> of stxtRecord
set stl to <<class ksty>> of stxtRecord
stl"
My proposal: Write this script in a way that anyone can run it.
2. Inside Macintosh, Text Manager,
contains a comprehensive description of text styles; maybe
that could be helpful.
Nobumi Iyanaga wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to read and process StyledText data that I will get from the
> clipboard in MacPerl.
>
> I know that StyledText data can be splitted in to a record of "ktxt" data
> and "ksty" data. The following AppleScript script:
>
> set stxt to the clipboard as styled text
> set stxtRecord to another data of stxt but type is record
> set txt to <<class ktxt>> of stxtRecord
> set stl to <<class ksty>> of stxtRecord
> stl
>
> returns something like this:
>
> <<data styl000F00000000000D000A00030100000A0000000000000000000...>>
>
> I have a MacPerl script which gets the 'styl' resource from a file (of
> SimpleText type), and analyses it (it is a friend of mine who wrote this
> script); what I would like to do is:
>
> write an AppleScript script (or a Frontier script) which would...:
>
> 1. get some StyledText data from the clipboard;
> 2. split this data into a TEXT data and a styl data
> [------ These steps are done by the above script]
> 3. pass them to a MacPerl script in this way:
> tell application "MacPerl"
> set res to do script {scriptPath, TEXT_data, styl_data} mode Batch
> end tel
> and get the result.
>
> Is this possible? I would appreciate any thoughts.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nobumi Iyanaga
> Tokyo,
> Japan
