OK, I filed another bug report on this. But my old report on the known bug I
mentioned is still unanswered. Perhaps you could send me
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/Text.sdef
and
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppleScriptKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AppleScriptKit.sdef,
so I can see if they've finally fixed that in Leopard.
Christiaan
On Jan 5, 2008 3:54 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're right, AppleScript does not seem to recognize it as rich text.
> That's strange, as we definitely return rich text and we also declare
> it as such in the scripting definition. This may be due to a long
> standing bug where Apple consistently defines rich text the wrong way
> (I know TextEdit does it wrong on Tiger). That bug often gets
> AppleScript confused (and AppleScript is easily confused).
>
> Christiaan
>
> On 5 Jan 2008, at 3:08 PM, James Harrison wrote:
>
> > On Jan 5, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> >
> >> That's a general AppleScript problem with rich text. AppleScript does
> >> not have a primitive rich text type. Rich text is declared as type
> >> text, so whenever you evaluated it (e.g. by assigning it to a
> >> variable) it is converted to just text.
> >
> > Right.
> >
> >> So you can only use it as
> >> rich text as a reference. Either use it directly in a command (such
> >> as saving to file or putting on a clipboard or getting rich text
> >> properties) that has a rich text parameter, or use 'a reference to'.
> >
> > This successfully moves styled text from one document to another in
> > TextEdit:
> >
> > tell application "TextEdit"
> > set the clipboard to the text of document "Styled text document"
> > end tell
> >
> > tell application "TextEdit"
> > set the text of document "Target document" to the clipboard
> > end tell
> >
> > However, this yields a TextEdit document with only plain text:
> >
> > tell document 1 of application "BibDesk"
> > set thePub to item 1 of (get publications whose cite key is myKey)
> > set the clipboard to (templated rich text using "Abbrv export" for
> > thePub)
> > end tell
> >
> > tell application "TextEdit"
> > set the text of document "Untitled" to the clipboard
> > end tell
> >
> > I get similar results using "a reference to." However, I have to admit
> > I can't successfully move styled text into TextEdit from other
> > programs (Pages, VoodooPad) using the clipboard or references, either,
> > but there I get class and type errors. On top of that, Applescript in
> > Leopard has changed the way it handles strings (everything is unicode
> > now, and styled text may not be handled the same way). I might just
> > need to wait for all this to settle out and for documentation to catch
> > up.
> >
> > Thanks anyway,
> >
> > Jim Harrison
> >
> >>
> >> On 5 Jan 2008, at 2:49 AM, James Harrison wrote:
> >>
> >>> In 1.3.13, the Applescript command "templated rich text" now yields
> >>> the correct text string, but it's not clear whether it includes any
> >>> text style information (in Leopard). I don't have a complete handle
> >>> on
> >>> the situation, since it's easy to strip style information from
> >>> strings
> >>> in Applescript and Applescript 2.0 in Leopard handles strings a bit
> >>> differently from previous versions. However, I can copy styled text
> >>> from one document in TextEdit directly to the clipboard and then
> >>> insert it into another document with styles preserved. When I set
> >>> the
> >>> clipboard to the output of templated rich text in BibDesk using the
> >>> Abbrv export template (which should italicize journal names) I can
> >>> insert the correct text into the TextEdit document from the
> >>> clipboard,
> >>> but the styles are absent. Is there a way to confirm that the
> >>> current
> >>> output of "templated rich text" is what's intended?
> >>>
> >>> By the way, the "About" box still reads 1.3.12 in the nightlies. Is
> >>> it
> >>> supposed to retain the old number until the official release?
> >>>
> >>> Jim Harrison
> >>> UVa
> >>
> >>
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