On Feb 20, 2012, at 11:10 AM, [email protected]
wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2012, at 23:04, Artemio Gonz?lez L?pez wrote:
>
>> After a little bit of experimenting, I think I've narrowed down the problem
>> down significantly. More specifically, I've now checked that the following
>> DO WORK:
>>
>> 1) Running an ApplesScript script like the following directly from Script
>> Editor:
>>
>> set theFile to POSIX file "/Users/artemio/Desktop/Apuntes/MC.pdf"
>> set theSource to POSIX file "/Users/artemio/Desktop/Apuntes/chap2.tex"
>> tell application "Skim"
>> activate
>> open theFile
>> tell front document to go to TeX line 100 from theSource
>> end tell
>>
>> 2) Running the following equivalent shell script from the Terminal:
>>
>> /usr/bin/osascript \
>> -e 'set theFile to POSIX file "/Users/artemio/Desktop/Apuntes/MC.pdf"' \
>> -e 'set theSource to POSIX file "/Users/artemio/Desktop/Apuntes/chap2.tex"'
>> \
>> -e 'tell application "Skim"' \
>> -e 'activate' \
>> -e 'open theFile' \
>> -e 'tell front document to go to TeX line 1000 from theSource' \
>> -e 'end tell'
>>
>>
>> Therefore, it seems to me that displayline fails when the arguments are
>> passed to bin/echo as null-separated strings. Indeed, the error after
>> running a command like " .../displayline line 100 foo.pdf foo.tex" at the
>> Terminal is
>>
>> 102:160: execution error: Can?t get item 1 of {}. (-1728)
>>
>> which seems to indicate that theArgv is empty. Is there any reasonable way
>> to fix this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Artemio
>>
>>
>> Artemio Gonz?lez L?pez
>> [email protected]
>
> What if you copy the displayline script and replace the last part as follows:
>
> /usr/bin/osascript \
> -e "set theLine to ${line} as integer" \
> -e "set theFile to POSIX file \"${file}\"" \
> -e "set theSource to POSIX file \"${source}\"" \
> -e "set thePath to POSIX path of (theFile as alias)" \
> -e "tell application \"Skim\"" \
> -e " if $activate then activate" \
> -e " if $revert then" \
> -e " try" \
> -e " set theDocs to get documents whose path is thePath" \
> -e " if (count of theDocs) > 0 then revert theDocs" \
> -e " end try" \
> -e " end if" \
> -e " open theFile" \
> -e " tell front document to go to TeX line theLine from theSource showing
> reading bar $bar" \
> -e "end tell" -
>
> and then use the copy?
>
> Christiaan
Now it works fine!
Thanks a lot,
Artemio
Artemio Gonzalez Lopez
[email protected]
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