Scripting studio questions... - Help!?

Question

Hello, I've got two questions, both regarding applescript studio.
Q1: How can one execute applescript code without pressing a button etc.
Easy example: If I would like to display the default dialog with xcode's applescript, I would write "display dialog". But it doesn't display the default wanted dialog (just the app's window).
Q2: How do I retrieve every word of a Text view interface component?
Better asked. I would like to count all the words entered and have every word with a unique value, like the first word have the integer value of 1 the second word 2 the third 3 ...
Help (of any kind) is dearly appreciated!

Answer 1

You might be having a problem defining the Text VIew, so I will start from a blank application template.
Double-click the MainMenu.xib file to open it in *Interface Builder*, then add a Text View to the application window and size it as desired. Clicking in the middle of the Text View will select the Scroll View part, and clicking again near the top will select the Text View part. With the Text VIew selected, go to the AppleScript Inspector, choose the script that you want to use your Text View in and give the Text View a name (for example "myTextView"). You can give names to the other user interface items if desired - in this example there is only one of each item so their indexes can also be used (e.g. "window 1"). Usually a name will be more clear, but I used a couple of different ways to specify the Text View.
To add some delegate handlers, I selected the *end editing* event handler for the Text View, and the launched event handler for the application (don't forget to set the script). Once everything is defined in Interface Builder, I filled in the event handlers with some log statements to show what is happening (open the Console when build/running the application):
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFCE75;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into Xcode 3.1.x (Leopard)">
on launched theObject
log "launched..."
tell window 1
set contents of text view 1 of scroll view 1 to "This is some testing text - some testing text this is."
end tell
display dialog "This is a test dialog"
end launched
on end editing theObject
log "end editing..."
set theWords to words of (get contents of text view "myTextView" of scroll view 1 of window 1)
log result
end end editing
</pre>
A test dialog will appear when the application is first run (launched), and pressing return in the Text View (which ends the editing) will log the words of the content to the console.