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
>> <mailto: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 <mailto:jamiepa...@gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
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