OK, so those characters you see are what you need to use in «class utf8». When I change my system and keyboard to Russian, they are option-shift-+ and option-+. -- Shane Stanley

actually should've been «event misccurd» (auto-correction in action stood in the way) 18.06.2018, в 8:33, Shane Stanley написал(а):

current date compiles into «event miscued» in SD and my Mac is set to Russian as default language. 18.06.2018, в 8:33, Shane Stanley написал(а):

Type this into a Script Debugger window: current date Compile, then go to the View Menu and choose Show Raw (Chevron) Syntax, and compile again. What do you see now? Also, what language is your

Hello again, Shane That's how the as "class utf8" compiles in ScriptDebugger: «class as »:"class utf8" 18.06.2018, в 2:50, Shane Stanley написал(а):

HI Jean-Christophe, I’d recommend yEd Graph Editor by yWorks <https://www.yworks.com/>. It’s Java based and it’s free. See the Gallery <https://www.yworks.com/products/yfiles/gallery> for

Escaping/quoting is only required for the shell, so there's no reason for it to appear anywhere other than Terminal, bash scripts, and do shell script. -- Shane Stanley

Go here and download a copy of Script Debugger: <https://latenightsw.com/sd7/download/>. Open one of your working scripts, then go to the View Menu and choose Show Raw (Chevron) Syntax. That should

I see the difference. I just have to figure out how to make quotes into as chevrons in precompiled AS code because my default locale is not en_EN. Maybe that's the cause of the error. 17.06.2018, в

Much obliged, Shane. Thx.

That appeared in El Capitan. FWIW, aside from the keyboard shortcut and the Edit view menu already mentioned, it is also available in a Finder window if you invoke the contextual menu on a selected

Thanks Steve! So cool, no escape chars either.

Seems like a bit of overkill for a simple literal replace. tell application "Finder" to set finderSelectionList to selection as alias list if length of finderSelectionList = 0 then error "No files

Is there a basic find and replace text function in Automator? I can only find one for file name strings to use in the Finder (And I don’t want to change any file names, just copy their paths and

You're still using quote marks instead of chevrons -- they are not the same things. write theText to FileID as «class utf8» Can you see the difference? -- Shane Stanley

Here's slightly modified the original 1st script: #########The script No.1. I got the coercion error number -1700 ("couldn't coerce the_text to "class salc"") property theText : "" property theFile :

Keynote is great for drawing programming flow type diagrams, there dedicated tools for this also, like Balsamiq, but I don't know of one other than Keynote that is free. Here's an example file from a

It seems you don't own me apology, Shane. My 1st script was butchered at some point missing some lines previously present perhaps because of numerous copy pastes between ScriptEditor and Mail messages

My apologies -- I misread your code. I'm still not sure what the problem was with «class utf8». -- Shane Stanley <sstanley@...> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>,

I'm not sure I can interpret your response correctly. The second script is a tad modified version of the 1st one. On the very 1st run it creates a new text doc, on every consecutive one it offers 2