Hi Eros9. This is indeed very interesting, and potentially very helpful for
a different thing I'm trying to do.
But I don't understand HOW you run the AppleScript in the context of a Text
Factory. In the user guide the only mention I see of AS in relation to a TF
is the "Run AppleScript Filter" option, which is documented as shown
below. I'm kind of thrown off by the statement "This entry point should
return the file’s contents as a Unicode string." Is this what you're using?
When you use the Run AppleScript Filter operation, your script should be
written with an entry point named “ApplyTextTransform”. The input parameter
to this entry point is a Unicode string containing the file’s contents.
This entry point should return the file’s contents as a Unicode string (or
something which can be directly coerced to one):
on ApplyTextTransform (fileData)
-- do something to fileData
return fileData -- or some reasonable facsimile thereof
end
On Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 10:30:49 AM UTC-7 Eros9 wrote:
This may be helpful to somebody. I have a text factory that is a chain of
"Replace All" commands to create an html proof of an xml file. I wanted to
add the file name to the proof, because it is crucial for correct
processing of the xml (when it's uploaded to the system in question).
Here's the Applescript, which is run at the start of the text factory:
on ApplyTextTransform(htmlTitle)
tell application "BBEdit"
activate
set fileName to (name of document 1) as text
set fileCont to (contents of document 1) as text
return ("<html>
<head>
<title>" & fileName & "</title>
</head>
" & fileCont)
end tell
end ApplyTextTransform
Then a grep replace command in the text factory finds the fileName and adds
it as part of the html body as well. (I realize that the htmlTitle variable
in the script is superfluous.)
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