Applescript to determine if cell is a formula?

Question

Perhaps I'm missing the obvious, but I can't seem to find any applescript support for determining if a cell contains a formula or is a literal value. 'get cell value' returns the resolved value rather than the formula string, and there doesn't seem to be an 'isformula' boolean property, nor is 'formula' a valid cell formatting type.
Any pointers?

Answer 1

It's quite easy
set rowNum to 80
set colnum to 3
set tName to 1
set sName to 1
set dName to 1
set isFormula to my isItAformula(rowNum, colnum, tName, sName, dName)
on isItAformula(rNum, cNum, t, s, d)
try
tell application "Numbers"
tell document d to tell sheet s to tell table t
set aCell to (get name of cell rNum of column cNum)
set aRange to aCell & ":" & aCell
set oldFormat to format of range aRange
set format of range aRange to text
set tVal to value of cell aCell
set format of range aRange to oldFormat
end tell -- document
end tell -- Numbers
return tVal starts with "="
on error
if my parleAnglais() then
error "row " & rNum & " of column " & cNum & " is out of range !"
else
error "ligne " & rNum & " de la colonne " & cNum & " est hors limites !"
end if
end try
end isItAformula
--=====
on parleAnglais()
local z
try
tell application "Numbers" to set z to localized string "Cancel"
on error
set z to "Cancel"
end try
return (z is not "Annuler")
end parleAnglais
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 26 avril 2009 22:59:49)