On Jun 19, 2010, at 7:44 AM, has wrote:
> So I would suggest taking it up with the Skim authors, as it's probably a bug
> in their scripting support.
As a follow-up, Christiaan Hofmann offered this:
On Jun 19, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> This is a very old and very annoying AppleScript bug in its validation of
> statements involving properties. Generally, when you get an error like this,
> you should insert an extra "get" command (which should be implicit, but it
> isn't) as in 'get text for (get selection of note 1 of document 1)'.
So in Applescript, the following works:
> tell application "Skim"
> set theRun to get text for (get selection of note 1 of document 1)
> set theText to attribute run 1 of theRun
> end tell
and with py-appscript, this works:
> skim = app('Skim.app')
> theRTF = skim.get_text_for(skim.documents[1].notes[1].selection.get())
> print theRTF.attribute_runs[1].get()
Charles
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