Setting the selection in AppleScript

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David Evans - 26 Jul 2005 20:05 GMT

Hey all.

As part of a larger project, I want to be able to exit a script with
a certain item selected. However, I can't seem to get even TextEdit
to select something for me. This:

tell document 1 of application "TextEdit" to select first word

returns "word 1 of document 1 doesn't understand the select message." I
tried

tell document 1 of application "TextEdit" to set selection to first word

and got "Can't make selection of document 1 into type reference."

There must be something *really* obvious that I'm missing here, since
these look pretty much like the examples I've been able to find. I'm
running on 10.4.2.

Any advice?

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Simon Slavin - 28 Jul 2005 20:38 GMT

On 26/07/2005, David Evans wrote in message
<dc61hf$o58$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca>:

> As part of a larger project, I want to be able to exit a script with
> a certain item selected. However, I can't seem to get even TextEdit
> to select something for me.

Post to alt.comp.lang.applescript with a subject line which mentions
selecting things in TextEdit.

Simon.

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Setting the selection in AppleScript