CS3 Scripting Guide AppleScript

Question

Shane Stanley wrote:
> No, I have no financial link with Script Debugger, but I do think that
> trying to script without it is a bit like having one hand tied behind your
> back.
>
> We've talked of doing AppleScript Pro Sessions in Amsterdam, but alas
> nothing has come of it so far. Ray did do a session for Apple over there a
> couple of years back.
Okay, I'll download the Script Debugger demo at some point and give it
a run, but I'd better stick to one thing at a time at this point considering
how long it's taking me just to get through the ID Scripting Guide. I have,
however, managed to get beyond Chapter 2, and have renamed this topic
accordingly.
Thanks,
Roy

Answer 1

Shane Stanley wrote:
> BOMs tend to matter only when you're moving stuff between systems
> using
> different endian processors, eg Intel vs PPC. It's a pity in a way
> that BOMs
> aren't used more widely, but much of the industry seems stuck in
> good-enough
> mode with ASCII variants. if you're not seeing text get garbled,
> you're
> fine.
I did get some garbled text the other day, but I don't think it was a
BOM issue. Setting the TextWrangler encoding preferences for Little-
Endian seems to occasion some problems, mainly undesired alerts, so I
changed them back to Western (Mac OS Roman). As far as I can remember,
I needed Little-Endian only for doing something with ID tagged text
that I'm now done with for the time being.
Hey, here's one I managed to do on my own:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"
activate
set myDocument to make document
set myMarginPreferences to margin preferences of myDocument
set bottomMargin to bottom of myMarginPreferences
set bottomYPoint to (page height of document preferences of
myDocument) - bottomMargin
set rightMargin to right of myMarginPreferences
set rightXPoint to (page width of document preferences of myDocument)
- rightMargin
tell page 1 of myDocument
set myTextFrame to make text frame with properties {geometric bounds:
{top of myMarginPreferences, left of myMarginPreferences,
bottomYPoint, rightXPoint}}
select insertion point -1 of myTextFrame
end tell
end tell
I suppose that's what you'd call trivial, but I didn't have it before
and now I do - assigned to cmd-n, understandably.
It wasn't easy for me and I blew too much time on it. I think the main
problem was that I kept hitting this point:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"
activate
set myDocument to make document
set myMarginPreferences to margin preferences of myDocument
tell page 1 of myDocument
set myTextFrame to make text frame with properties {geometric bounds:
{top of myMarginPreferences, left of myMarginPreferences, (page height
of document preferences of myDocument) - (bottom of
myMarginPreferences), [...]}}
at which it would keep telling me:
Canât make «class marb» of «class impp» of document "Untitled-
[n]" of application "Adobe InDesign CS4" into type number.
I couldn't figure out what was going on there, and still can't. There
wasn't any problem with top of myMarginPreferences. bottom of
myMarginPreferences had to be a number, in order to work with top of
myMarginPreferences which evidently was text, and, uh... confused again!
Oh... top of myMarginPreferences is text, while
page height of document preferences of myDocument is a number, right?
If so, that doesn't seem to be intuitively evident, exactly.
Thanks,
Roy