AppleScript: Getting text from a pop-up list cell

[Timothy Jarrett]

I have a question about scripting OmniOutliner. What is the correct 
syntax for getting the text from an outline cell containing a pop-up 
list? Using

	set theCells to cells of theRow
	repeat with theCurrentCell in theCells
		set theCellText to (get text of theCurrentCell as international text)
	end repeat

fails with an NSReceiver error (3) when the current cell is defined as a 
pop-up list.

Also, what is the correct syntax to use to get data from a cell if it 
contains international characters (e.g. u-umlaut)? Using (get text as 
international text) appears to truncate the returned string right before 
the first accented character.

Thanks
Tim

On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 03:02  PM, omnioutliner-users-
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> Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 11:47:31 +1000
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> From: Adrian Smith <adrianslists at optushome.com.au>
> Subject: Re: document format
>
>> Is the data structure of the document written up anywhere?  It
>> appears to be XML.  The DOCTYPE declaration points to
>> /System/Library/DTDs/PropertyList.dtd.
>>
>> I'm trying to write some Perl that will allow me to convert OO into
>> another format.  Should I be looking at Apple's developer docs to
>> learn more about /System/Library/DTDs/PropertyList.dtd ?
>>
>>
>> (I'm new to the list, a former PC-Outline/Acta/InControl user.
>> Nowadays I actually do most of my outlining on my Palm using
>> BrainForest and Progect).
>>
>> --
>> -- James Peregrino - 
>> http://lab.dce.harvard.edu/~peregrin/business-card.html
>> _______________________________________________
>
>
> Reading between the lines here... but are you working on a something
> for converting OO files to Brainforest files by any chance? I would
> love to be able to do that...
>
> Adrian
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 09:23:22 -0400
> To: OmniOutliner-Users at omnigroup.com
> From: James Peregrino <james_peregrino at harvard.edu>
> Subject: Re: document format
>
> No...because that's an undocumented format to a commercial product.
> I don't have the skills to reverse engineer that.  But since Progect
> is open source, there's more hope...plus someone else has written
> some Perl modules for Progect.
>
> I'm finding some docs on PropertyList.dtd at Apple's developer site.
>
>>> Is the data structure of the document written up anywhere?  It
>>> appears to be XML.  The DOCTYPE declaration points to
>>> /System/Library/DTDs/PropertyList.dtd.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to write some Perl that will allow me to convert OO into
>>> another format.  Should I be looking at Apple's developer docs to
>>> learn more about /System/Library/DTDs/PropertyList.dtd ?
>>>
>>>
>>> (I'm new to the list, a former PC-Outline/Acta/InControl user.
>>> Nowadays I actually do most of my outlining on my Palm using
>>> BrainForest and Progect).
>>>
>>> --
>>> -- James Peregrino -
>> http://lab.dce.harvard.edu/~peregrin/business-card.html
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>
>> Reading between the lines here... but are you working on a something
>> for converting OO files to Brainforest files by any chance? I would
>> love to be able to do that...
>>
>> Adrian
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