IWork Numbers -- how to determine the current selected column/row?

Question

I am trying to write a script that grabs some text from a Numbers spreadsheet based on the selected field. I just can't figure how to actually get the column and row in a way I can use. Here's my start:
tell application "Numbers"
tell document 1
-- DETERMINE THE CURRENT SHEET
set currentsheetindex to 0
repeat with i from 1 to the count of sheets
tell sheet i
set x to the count of (tables whose selection range is not missing value)
end tell
if x is not 0 then
set the currentsheetindex to i
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
if the currentsheetindex is 0 then error "No sheet has a selected table."
-- GET THE VALUES OF THE SELECTED CELLS
tell sheet currentsheetindex
set the current_table to the first table whose selection range is not missing value
tell the current_table
set the range_values to the value of every cell of the selection range
set therange to every cell of the selection range
set thecol to column of first item of therange
set therow to row of first item of therange
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
It gives me a result like
row "30" of table "table" of sheet "sheet 1" of document "Scheduler.numbers" of application "Numbers"
but what I need is just "30" so I can use it for my scripts. I can't figure how to convert this to a string or some other useful format.
Can anyone help? I like Numbers but I always run into little problems like this, something I can't figure how to do, compared with other scriptable programs.

Answer 1

Search forGetSelParams or better for get_SelParams in the existing threads.
I posted this handler more than 30 times !
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 18 mars 2011 17:03:05