Re: Apple script problems

[Jim Hurley]

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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:56:31 +1000
From: Sarah Reichelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apple script problems
To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hi Jim,

HyperCard is totally AppleScriptable. If you open the Apple Script
Editor and then Open dictionary... you can see the list of commands
that HyperCard responds to. Revolution has no such dictionary and does
not respond directly to AppleScripts. You can probably do it yourself
by writing an AppleEvent handler that responds to a dosc event (do
script).
However in the current case, you don't need to use AppleScript.
Shorten your AppleScript to this:
tell application "filemaker Pro5"
  get every record
  set theResult to result
  return theResult
end tell
In your Rev button, have this script:
On mouseUP
  do field "theScript" as applescript
  put the result into field "data"
end mouseUp
Cheers,
Sarah
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Hi Sarah,

Thank you for your response. It was very helpful. But the result of

tell application "filemaker Pro5"
get evrey record
end tell
On mouseUp
do field "theScript" as applescript
put the result into field "data"
end mouseUp
results in the following in field "data"

{{"4535", "Gossett", "Joshua", "Boreham", "12975", "", "", ""}, 
{"109769", "Hochwald ", "Joshua ", "American Hill ", "15822", 
"sAddress sLast", "", "Voter"}}

(These are just two records in this voter database.)

Now I can get rid of the quotes and the curly brackets (by putting 
the results into a variable and using the "replace" command), but I 
don't understand their origin. They are not present in the original; 
the fields are all just simple text. The quotes are not so surprising 
as the curly brackets.

Puzzled,

Jim
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