Charles Turner wrote:
> I have the following script:
>
> from appscript import *
>
> skim = app('Skim.app')
> reference = skim.documents[1].notes[1].selection.get()[0]
> print reference
>
> which produces the reference:
>
> app(u'/Applications/Skim.app').documents[u'blair-2004.pdf'].pages[1].text.characters[app.documents[u'blair-2004.pdf'].pages[1].text.characters[1022]:app.documents[u'blair-2004.pdf'].pages[1].text.characters[1147]]
>
> If I change the last line of the script to:
>
> print reference.get()
>
> it generates:
>
> CommandError:
> app(u'/Applications/Skim.app').documents[u'blair-2004.pdf'].pages[1].text.characters[app.documents[u'blair-2004.pdf'].pages[1].text.characters[1022]:app.documents[u'blair-2004.pdf'].pages[1].text.characters[1147]].get,
> ((), {}), aem.EventError(-1720, '', {'errn': <aem.ae.AEDesc type='long'
> size=4>, 'erob': <aem.ae.AEDesc type='obj ' size=932>})
That looks like the slightly mangled output from CommandError.__repr__(),
although you don't say if its your code or your editor that's formatting it
this way. You'll get a much more readable error message from
CommandError.__str__().
Digging through it, the error number is -1720, 'invalid range'. I'm not
familiar with Skim, but a quick test confirms the same commands produce the
same error in AppleScript too:
tell application "Skim"
set r to item 1 of (get selection of note 1 of document 1)
get contents of r
end tell
-- error "Skim got an error: Invalid range." number -1720 from characters 222
thru 286 of text of page 4 of document "points-of-view.pdf"
So I would suggest taking it up with the Skim authors, as it's probably a bug
in their scripting support.
HTH
has
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