Aloha,
Charlie
> On Mar 29, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Chris Moore <chris.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> How would you run this script from within textEdit? Would you assign it to a
> hot key?
> Chris
>> On Mar 27, 2015, at 8:10 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's not, but you have a great point. I'll add that to the next version.
>>
>> In the meantime, here's the script. Just copy the below lines, open up
>> Script Editor, paste, and save the script in the same place as the other
>> Talking Dashboard ones. It's not tested very much--I wrote it in about
>> fifteen minutes--but it runs on my machine and doesn't require Yosemite. Be
>> warned that, if TextEdit is not running when you run this script, the app
>> will launch itself. Anyway, here is the script:
>>
>> (* Keywords:
>> $wordCount: the number of words in the currently open document in TextEdit
>> $characterCount: the number of characters in the currently open TextEdit
>> document
>> $name: the name of the currently open document
>> *)
>>
>> set template to "$wordCount words ($characterCount characters) in $name."
>> set utilities to import("utilities.scpt")
>>
>> set {wordCount, characterCount, documentName} to {0, 0, ""}
>>
>> tell application "TextEdit"
>> set my wordCount to count (words of document 1)
>> set my characterCount to count (characters of document 1)
>> set my documentName to name of document 1
>> end tell
>>
>> set keywords to {{"$wordCount", wordCount}, {"$characterCount",
>> characterCount}, {"$name", documentName}}
>> set template to str_replace(keywords, template) of utilities
>> tell utilities to speak(template)
>>
>> on import(filename)
>> set p to (path to me) as text
>> set oldDelimiters to text item delimiters of AppleScript
>> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
>> set scpt to load script file (((text items 1 through ((length of (text
>> items of p)) - 1) of p) & filename) as text)
>> set text item delimiters of AppleScript to oldDelimiters
>> return scpt
>> end import
>>
>>> On Mar 27, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Jamie Pauls <jamiepa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello, all,
>>>
>>> I understand that a script exists that will allow one to get a word count
>>> for a document using TextEdit. If someone could kindly point me to this
>>> script, that would be great. It doesn’t appear to be a part of the Talking
>>> Dashboard scripts unless I’mm missing something.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Take care and have a great day.
>>> Jamie Pauls
>>> jamiepa...@gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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