#Mac applescript bbedit select window how to#
#Mac applescript bbedit select window full#

Set myLinksTextToFind to “” set myLinksText to 'Home Image Index myLinksTextToFind using myLinksText searching in window 1 options The part of the script in question is like this: BBEdit offers access to nearly all of its features and commands via AppleScript. However when running one particular event the end result has the “&” symbol stripped from the “ ” parts of the string. Custom scripting is usually required to manipulate text with AppleScript. Overall, JavaScript has a much wider-range of built-in language-level text manipulation functions. Most of what I am doing is working just fine. AppleScript and JavaScript both possess some basic text manipulation functions and properties that allow you to concatenate text, get the length of a string, and more. Once you run the previous example, creating the alias, the script will be able to find the original file when you run it again, even if the file’s name or location changes. However, in earlier versions, AppleScript attempts to resolve aliases at compile time. After selecting “Menu Bar 1” every sub-item was stuck with the notation counting.I have thousands of web pages that I want to adjust using applescript and BBedit. AppleScript 2.0 attempts to resolve aliases only when you run a script. The procedure shown in your video doesn’t appear to work for Script Debugger. The dictionary is labeled as Finder.sdef. Figure 2-1 shows the dictionary for the Finder application in OS X v10.5. Double-click an item in the list to display its dictionary.

Instead, I placed a separate TextEdit tell statement with the activate command at the very-top of the script. I have an applescript which extracts the name, associated process and and other information about a target window. To display a list that includes just the scriptable applications and scripting additions provided by macOS, choose Window > Library. I don’t have BBEdit, so I tested with TextEdit instead, and placing the activate command where shown in your video doesn’t work for me and returned the error message 'System Events got an error: Can’t get process “TextEdit”. To change this, the Script Debugger Editor preference that is entitled “Paste Object References as nested Tell blocks” has to be enabled. I did encounter three possible issues which I might mention for other forum members who view your video:Īfter I selected the “Paste Tell” icon, the script format differed from that shown in the video. When I put in a static file name it works, but overwrites itself. I’ve been trying to get a test file to split using a search that puts CAT and DOG one after the other like this: CAT DOG CAT DOG my script seems to getting hung up creating the unique filename. I didn’t know Script Debugger had this functionality and wouldn’t have figured out its operation without your video. Hi, I have a bbedit 8 file I need to split and save into several smaller text files. You may need to add delays before the commands, but I didn’t need to.Įd. I find it’s more reliable to use the names than the index, but both work. (this would be much easier using UI Browser!)

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#Mac applescript bbedit select window full#

Double clicking the Safari process opened it full in the window. To do this I opened the System Events dictionary, selected processes, found the Safari process (I had to click Show More a few times). This works for me (in Script Debugger and Script Editor): tell application 'Safari'įWIW, I built this script using Script Debugger’s dictionary explorer. If needed I can go into more detail or post a movie. In brief, the UI elements are found in Script Debugger Dictionary Explorer window, of the System Events app.

#Mac applescript bbedit select window how to#

Below is copied and pasted from another thread, which describes how to access the UI actions.