I'm no longer sure what your question is. Neither use the suggested code. And the second one is problematic if the file already exists and is longer than the text you're writing. -- Shane Stanley

Here's my script (copy pasted as plain text) and another following that one. ============================================== property theText : "" property theFile : missing value property theSubject :

No. -- Shane Stanley <sstanley@...> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>

The « and » characters are quotes in some languages, but they have a special meaning in AppleScript. You have to enter them exactly. It would help trouble-shoot if you copied and pasted your code

Ooops...Through your question I think I'm onto smth. Yes I enclose it in quotes - just as given in the AppleScript guide I'm reading.

Are you enclosing it in « and » characters? -- Shane Stanley <sstanley@...> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>

Hi, Shane I did that too, I tried every encoding that write cmd provide as a value of its as parameter. When I use "class utf8" I get an error.

You need to save the file as UTF-8 -- at the moment you're saving it in MacRoman. Change this: to: write theText to FileID as «class utf8» -- Shane Stanley

Hello, I wrote a script that would act as an Automator service plug-in in Mail.app when placed to "Run AppleScript" action. It basically would extract the contents of a selected message along with its

Thank you Jim. I'm not really sure what I assume. I guess writing things down on paper would help too. JC Jean-Christophe

Assuming you meant "rich text", I think we need a bit more info about your requirements/specification. Are you looking for one tool that will support everything: rich text, code blocks, diagramming,

I already have a number of scripts that I'd like to "merge" but before that I want to draft or prototype with real text mixed with code and maybe graphs to get a better idea of the flow. What would

G’day Scripters You’ve been most fortunate. I’ve been laid up in hospital for 4 months quite ill, and have not had access to my iMac in that time. However, I’m quite well now, and ready to

Late Night Software has released Script Debugger 7, the latest version of its award-winning AppleScript development software. The upgrade introduces Script Debugger Lite, several new features and a

Thank you for the comments. I eventually posted the thing here after a number of modifications: https://mac4translators.blogspot.jp/2018/02/this-article-is-attempt-at-putting.html Jean-Christophe

-- This document is intended for my blog, but I thought that I'd share it here first, just in case there are comments/suggestions/questions, etc. Including the code, it is 3000 words. It's trivial for

It sounds like it removes the vulnerability of stored variable values. -- Shane Stanley <sstanley@...> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>

My primary interest in using AS is in conjunction with a Filemaker app, where Filemaker creates and stores the AS within a calculated FM script (which is then hidden from the user, and passes the

Hi All, I recommended that davew@... post on this list. Here is my earlier reply to his

I found a new one: when adding a file extension to a file, Finder asks "Add ..." and "Don't add ..." and Cmd+A triggers "Add ..." Jean-Christophe