Text item delimiters in SnowLeopard's AppleScript
In SnowLeopard's AppleScript, the statement
set xxx to AppleScript's text item delimiters
is no longer recognized, i.e. "AppleScript's" and "text item delimiters" are nor longer recognized upon compilation.
This always worked before (and was recommended by Apple).
Can anyone indicate what has changed, please?
It was just the one line.
Actually, it does seem to work. I was misled by the fact that when I compiled in AppleScript Editor, the words "AppleScript" and "text item delimiters" did not change context coloring (i.e. did not seem to be recognized). I don't know why that should be. Execution was correct nevertheless.
Thanks
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Setting text item delimiters in Cocoa-Applescript App
Does anyone know of a problem with text item delimiters in a Cocoa-Applescript App. This is in Xcode 4.5.2 and Mountain Lion
the following code seems to fail to set the text item delimeter to + when I run it in Coca-AppleScript
-- TSTAppDelegate.applescript
-- Test Text item Delimiters
-- Created by Frank Caggiano on 12/22/12.
-- Copyright (c) 2012 Frank Caggiano. All rights reserved.
script TSTAppDelegate
property parent : class "NSObject"
on applicationWillFinishLaunching_(aNotification)
-- Insert code here to initialize your application before any files are opened
tstTxtDel()
end applicationWillFinishLaunching_
on applicationShouldTerminate_(sender)
-- Insert code here to do any housekeeping before your application quits
return current application's NSTerminateNow
end applicationShouldTerminate_
on tstTxtDel()
set text item delimiters to "+"
set d to "-s http://www.nietzschefamilycircus.com"
set r to do shell script "curl " & d & " | ~/Desktop/try.pl"
display dialog "r is " & r
set rr to every text item of r
display dialog "rr " & rr
display dialog "curl " & first text item of rr & " -o "
end
end script
However if you put the tstTstDel() function in the Applescript editor it works as expected.
The try.pl script is
#!/usr/bin/perl
$s ="";
while (<>) {
$s .= $_;
$s =~ m{class="comic"(.*)<div class="footer">}si;
($link, $caption,$jj) = ($1 =~ m{<img src="(.*)" alt=.*class="quote">(.*)(</div>.*</div>)}si);
print $link, "+", $caption, "\n";
I know this worked in the past. The Coca-Applescript app was written at least as far back as Snow Leopard. The site I am parsing changed their format and I was updating the app as a means to learn the new Coca-Applescript environment.
Any help appreciatedOK found it, I needed to use
set Applescript's text item delimiters to "+"
instead of just
set text item delimiters to "+"
I suppose it is a scoping thing. -
Linked list to string coercion doesn't use text item delimiters: bug?
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"; "} -- well-known technique
{1, -1, "c", "d"} as string -- curly braces specify a vector, delimiters work
-- result: "1; -1; c; d"
{1, -1, "c", "d"} as linked list as string -- if coerced to linked list, delimiters ignored
-- result: "1-1cd"
[1, -1, "c", "d"] as string -- square brackets specify a linked list, delimiters ignored
-- result: "1-1cd"
[1, -1, "c", "d"] as vector as string -- coercing linked list to vector first works
-- result: "1; -1; c; d"Hello
It appears that linked list to string coercion does not respect the AppleScript's text item delimiters which are set to list of Unicode text. (Unicode TIDs have no effects in coercion as if it were set to {""})
I can confirm this behaviour in both AppleScript 1.8.3 (OS9) and 1.9.1 (OSX10.2.8) at hand.
So it has been as such for a long time. Bug I'd call it.
By the way, although this is not the point, linked list is a historical residue and of little use in real scripting. After all, it is much slower than vector with appropriate coding. So we may always coerce it to vector without losing anything.
Regards,
H
Linked list to string coercion & AppleScript's text item delimiters (TIDs).
When AppleScript's TIDs are set to list of Unicode text,
the TIDs have no effect in coercion from linked list to string as if they were set to {""}.
set aa to [1, 2, "a", "b"]
--set aa to {1, 2, "a", "b"} as linked list
set t1 to list2text(aa, ";") -- "1;2;a;b" -- in pre-AppleScript 2.0
set t2 to list2text(aa, ";" as Unicode text) --"12ab"
return {t1, t2}
on list2text(aa, delim)
list aa : source list
string delim : a text item delimiter
return string
local astid, astid0, t
set astid to a reference to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set astid0 to astid's contents
try
set astid's contents to {delim}
--set t to aa as string
--set t to aa as Unicode text
set t to "" & aa
set astid's contents to astid0
on error errs number errn
set astid's contents to astid0
error errs number errn
end try
return t
end list2text -
Cocoa Applescript can't use AppleScript's text item delimiters
Here is my code
if (track_name_html as text) contains (publisher_name as text) then
try
set s to track_name_html as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "- "
set track_name1 to text item 2 of s
on error
set track_name1 to track_name_html as text
end try
else
set track_name1 to track_name_html as text
end if
track_name_ui's setStringValue_(track_name as text)
When I try to log track_name it returns blank. It's very important for my Cocoa-Applescript App.
Thnaks in advanceAfter looking documention I found insertText()
Then I make a handler for quick insertion to text view
on statusin(statustx)
set my statuseditable to true
set timetx to do shell script "date +'%H:%M'"
status's insertText_(timetx & " - " & statustx & return)
set my statuseditable to false
end statusin -
I have a file name with this convention, a project code like such.
AR123 smith, bob EM v1.mov
I need to change the EM to AM.
how do I do it. thanks for any help.There is a decent text item delimiters tutorial at MacScripter - you can replace text by breaking a string apart using one set of delimiters and putting it back together again using another. The following example will rename files using your example:
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFDDFF;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
tell application "Finder" to repeat with SomeFile in (choose file with multiple selections allowed) -- get file(s)
set TheName to name of SomeFile -- get the name
considering case -- pay attention to the case of the text in the following statements
set TempTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters -- save the current delimiter
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "EM" -- the text to replace
set NewName to text items of TheName -- break the text apart at each delimiter
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "AM" -- the replacement text
set NewName to NewName as text -- put the text back together with the delimiter
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TempTID -- restore the original delimiter
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</pre> -
this does not work.
I need to extract the name of the file dropped onto the droplet.
can anyone help.
on open the_files
repeat with a_file in the_files
tell application "Finder"
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"}
-- display dialog a_file as string
--set the_file to a_file as string
get last text item of a_file as string
display dialog a_file as string
end tell
end repeat
end openI got this to work so the result gives me the just file name (AR155Scott, Bobby Full mix.png), now I need to extract out just the AR155 part of the file name. any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
repeat with a_file in the_files
tell application "Finder"
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"}
set the_file to a_file as string
set the_project to the last text item of the_file
display dialog the_project as string -- AR155 Scott, Bobby Full mix.png
--set the_project to last text item of a_file as string
-- display dialog the_project as string
end tell
end repeat -
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Have the line changed to:
make new text item with properties {object text:receiptDD, position:{6.9, 2.7}, height:0.5, width:1}
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Hi,
I implemented a when-new-block-instance that does just that,
however due to navigation problems the trigger fires when it should not
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Updating a value of a text item in a multi record block based on a change
Hi,
I need to change the value of a text item in a multi record block based on a change to another item's value in the same block.
Suppose there's a text item in a multi record block called dt1 which is of type date, which is changed in a particular record. I want to change the values of the another item in the same multi record block, for all other records by running a loop through all the records in multi record block. I dont want to do it on the press of a button, it should do automatically on change. Help me resolve this issue.Hi,
I need to change the value of a text item in a multi record block based on a change to another item's value in the same block.
Suppose there's a text item in a multi record block called dt1 which is of type date, which is changed in a particular record. I want to change the values of the another item in the same multi record block, for all other records by running a loop through all the records in multi record block. I dont want to do it on the press of a button, it should do automatically on change. Help me resolve this issue. -
Multiple values from database on a single text item
i am trying to do the following
on a single text item in a form
(under form property pallete->records->number of items displayed is 5) run a triger "when-new-block-instance" with the following pl/sql statement
declare
menu_item VARCHAR2(35);
begin
select label into menu_item
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end;
however, once i run the form it gives me
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however, if in the pl/sql statement contains only
begin
execute querry;
end;
then it works fine
The problem i beleive is the fact that the first querry retreives multiple values or recordset instead of A record.
How can i go arond this and allow the form to list all the values in this form. Eventually i will need to add conditional SQL statments and that is why just execute querry will not work.
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nullHi, Marko
I teach Forms, and I usually find a bad idea to use SQL statements directly (in particular when you can "make" Forms to do what you want).
Inside PL/SQL, a SELECT..INTO statement is supposed to select a single row, otherwise an error occurs.
EXECUTE_QUERY works.
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You can set the DEFAULT_WHERE block property to a different value before using EXECUTE_QUERY, like:
SET_BLOCK_PROPERTY('your_block', DEFAULT_WHERE, 'where menu_id > 100');
And the answer to your second question is no, you cannot dynamically change the number of records a block is displaying.
You can limit the number of records your block queries from the database table using Maximum Records Fetched block property (available in Forms 6 and above, not sure about Forms 5). However, this will only work as expected if you set Query All Records to Yes.
Hope this helps,
Pedro -
Text items not being refreshed by LOV items.
Hi all,
I've got a strange LOV behavior problems which I cannot solve and require your valuable time and efforts.
I've created a simple ADF JSF pages with 3 fields and the first field is LOV enabled. For all new row, after clicking the LOV icon, the LOV will show up and after selecting a particular value, it closes the LOV screen and replace it with a new row with the selected LOV data. It is all working well for all new rows just like a normal LOV should perform.
But I had problem with existing data. The row which I selected from the LOV somehow cannot referesh and overwrite any existing row (visually) but after commiting the data, it was actually written and refreshed with the correct data. Is there a property in the JHeadstart Application Definition Editor where I enforce the text items to be refreshed by the LOV items?
Thank you for your time and efforts.
Kind Regards,
JohnHi Guys,
I've performed the following scenarios attempting to refreshed Text items by the LOV Items.
Scenario 1: Create a new column called some_key load unique number into it. Set this column as the primay key and deselect existing primary keys as key attributes. Also, I've created a sequence and some_key is of type of DBSequence getting value from the new sequence starting from 1.
After generation when run and the result is:
JBO-27022: Failed to load value at index 11 with java object of type oracle.jbo.domain.DBSequence due to java.sql.SQLException.
## Detail 0 ##java.sql.SQLException: Invalid column index
Scenario 2: Create a unique index for the some_key column, rerun and the result is:
JBO-27022: Failed to load value at index 11 with java object of type oracle.jbo.domain.DBSequence due to java.sql.SQLException.
## Detail 0 ##java.sql.SQLException: Invalid column index
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JBO-27021: Failed to load CustomDatum value at index 11 with java object of type oracle.jbo.domain.Number due to java.sql.SQLException.
## Detail 0 ##java.sql.SQLException: Invalid column index
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SUCCESSFULLY!!
So, I guess the bottom line is here are the following things which you need to perform in order to enable text item to be refreshed by LOV item (if the detail table has composite primary keys)
1.) Create a new column
2.) Load unique value to it
3.) Create unique index for it
4.) Create entity object, view object and view link object.
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6.) Deselect the key attributes for all composite primary key columns.
Regards,
John -
[CS4][JS] Accessing skewed text items
The following code snippet successfully finds all the skewed text in a
document and then removes the skew:
//Clear the find/change preferences.
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
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app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = false;
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app.changeTextPreferences.skew = 0;
However, I want to access each fragment of skewed text rather than
globally change them.
How do I access the collection of skewed text items as the
findTextPreferences does not seem to possess the required properties.
TIA
Doug NealeHi Peter,
I tried this on a single page document with some text set in italics:
//Clear the find/change preferences.
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
//Set the find options.
app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = false;
//Search the document for all the skewed text
app.findTextPreferences.skew = 1;
var myFound = app.activeDocument.findText();
if (myFound.length==0) {
alert("No skewed text was found");
else {
// ok we have some skewed text, now loop through each one
for (i =0; i < myFound.length; i++) {
var myTextObject = myFound[i];
var myText = myTextObject.Content;
and it always finishes up with the alert :-(
and debug confirmed that myFound.length was zero.
Should I be doing something else to find italic text?
Regards,
Doug Neale -
Forms (V10G) - RunTime Text Item -- Editor
Hello:
What are the available options to enhance forms runtime SYSTEM/DEFAULT editor for Text Items? We like to add spell checker, text format features in to field editor.
I am sure there are Java based editors out there that Forms could invoke. I am hoping I am not the fist one with this requirement and someone may have done this. Perhaps could provide some input.
Forms V 10G. (This posting is NOT about PL/SQL editor in Developer)
ThanksHello,
You can use Webutil.You can call MS Word checkspell function.
Check this:
http://sheikyerbouti.developpez.com/webutil-docs/fichiers/Webutil_store_edit_docs.pdf
Cheers,
Suresh -
Chart and text items are not synchron
hi all,
i am a newbie in apex 4.0.
i have two regions. the first shows a chart, based on pl/sql-code. second shows text items for possible filter an the current statement of the chart.
when user clicks on a bar in the chart then
1. i set the the first text item as filter,
2. a pl/sql-code runs, build a sql statement, assign the sql statement string to the second text item and
3. returns the statement for the chart.
it works fine. the chart refresh. and the data i can see are correct.
but the text items in the other region doesn't refresh.
when i press "refresh"-button at browser level everything is fine. chart and text items fits together.
what can I do to refresh all regions when the chart changes the sql-statment / User clicks?
Is there any way to read out the current statement of a chart?
thx in advance
jogi
Edited by: Jogi on 09.05.2011 12:31Bernd: the reason I asked about views is that you don't have any error messages. This might indicate that (a) you have no items in the view, or (b) there's something wrong with view-role-user assignment.
To check for (a), please go to the published procurement catalog, and go to Views tab. Check that your View is Active. Click on your View ID link to display view details. You should see a list of characteristics assigned to your view in Assign Characteristics sub-tab (the list should not be blank!). Go to Assign Items sub-tab. Navigate in your schema to find items that are supposed to be assigned to your view. You should see "Yes" in the "Assigned" column for those products. If you don't, then you simply don't have any items in your view.
Another thing I'd like you to check: when the user calls your procurement catalog for search, do you see the name of the catalog displayed just below the drop-down "Select Categories Hierarchically"?
Cheers,
Serguei -
How to find the ID of the text item of the column in an tabular form
Hello,
I have created a tabular form report on emp table and made ONE OF THE COLUMN department_id as an text item using APEX_ITEM.TEXT APIs.
My select query is
select
"EMPLOYEE_ID",
"EMPLOYEE_ID" EMPLOYEE_ID_DISPLAY,
"FIRST_NAME",
"LAST_NAME",
"HIRE_DATE",
"JOB_ID",
"SALARY",
"MANAGER_ID",
APEX_ITEM.TEXT(3,department_id,20,50,'readonly=true') department_id
from "#OWNER#"."OEHR_EMPLOYEES"
now how can i find the item ID?
one more thing is that how would i reference this item in an javascript function.
anyone plz help me out with this.
thanks.Hi,
Firstly, your link must include "this" to ensure that any javascript knows which link has been clicked. So, change:
onclick="javascript:report();"to
onclick="javascript:report(this);"Next, your javascript code must take this value and find the related DEPTNO item on the same row. The URL must pass to the popup page the name of the ID that needs to be updated - this is held in the f10 variable in the following script. This means that you popup page must be able to receive this value so that it can use it to update the DEPTNO item when a value is selected. Your popup page seems to be page number 4, so I will assume that you have a P4_ITEM_ID hidden item on that page for this purpose. So, the javascript on the main page would be something like:
function report(x)
var f10;
var p = x.parentNode;
while (p.tagName != "TR")
p = p.parentNode;
var inputs = p.getElementsByTagName("INPUT");
var zz;
for (zz = 0; zz < inputs.length; zz++)
if (inputs[zz].name = 'f10')
f01 = inputs[zz].id;
var url;
url = 'f?p=&APP_ID.:4:&APP_SESSION.::::P4_ITEM_ID:' + f10;
var w = open(url,"winLov","Scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=450,height=600");
if (w.opener == null)
w.opener = self;
w.focus();
}So, when the user clicks a link, the report() function is called and the object clicked is passed as a parameter. The script then starts from this object and goes up to the TR tag that the link is on. From here, it finds all INPUT items and then looks at those to find one that has a name attribute of "f10". When it finds it, it stores the ID of that in the "f10" variable. It then constructs a URL using this variable which is set into the P4_ITEM_ID hidden item on the popup page.
I don't know what your javascript is on the popup, but it would need to get the value out of P4_ITEM_ID to see which main page item needs updating. This could be something like:
function passBack(val)
var id = $v('P4_ITEM_ID');
opener.document.getElementById(id).value = val;
window.close();
}This script looks in the P4_ITEM_ID hidden item and gets its value - this will be the ID of the item to update on the main page. It then does the update and closes the popup.
Andy
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