Some random OO feature ideas

[James Spahr]

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 11:57  AM, Nels Freed wrote:

>> One further feature request: could there be (or is there already) a 
>> way to get the currently selected text (and/or the contents of the 
>> 'current' cell) from OmniOutliner? I tried to implement a 'Go to URL' 
>> AppleScript that would send you to a URL contained in a specific 
>> field, but found myself blocked because I couldn't see a way to get 
>> OO to tell me what the currently-active cell is.
>
> I'm glad to see another person want the currently-active cell or row 
> in AppleScript.  (If row then I could look up the cell of interest). I 
> too would really really like this feature.  I stay on the list just in 
> hopes of finding a solution to this feature request.

another applescript request -- unique ids for each row that do not 
change when the order is shuffled. This makes creating scripts that 
work on an outline multiple times a whole lot easier (and makes writing 
synchronizing scripts a whole lot easier too)

James.