AppleScript questions

[James Spahr]

On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 01:02  PM, Nicholas Riley wrote:
>
> Thanks for your help.  The Helvetica thing is still happening for me,
> on two different Macs with two different OS versions and OmniOutliner
> 2.2.3.  Guess I should report it as a bug (how do you do that for Omni
> software?)

I've sent bugs to omnioutliner at omnigroup.com. I think that's the 
preferred way. There is also a 'Send Feddback' option in the help menu.

> Wonderful.  The only problem I can't figure out is how to select the
> new row once it's been moved.  The row doesn't stay selected, and
> since I still can't figure out how to extract the row indices, I'm 
> stuck.

Yes. I've been complaining for months about this. (at least I think we 
are talking about the same thing).

1) the only way to get the index number is to walk the outline and 
compare references. (yuk)
2) index numbers change after re-ordering. So we need an additional uid 
property. I've been a squeaky wheel on the uid property because it 
causes me the most headaches, and it might be really easy to add. 
(maybe, hopefully)

I don't know of a way to set the row to be selected and ready for 
editing (which is what I assume you are talking about)


>
> Here's a version of the script which should work no matter what state
> the outline is in.  It would certainly be nice if it were easier to
> do this!
>

I agree. However, the applescript interface on OmniOutliner has slowly 
been getting better. And I've found the folks at Omni actually listen. 
So if you have some suggestions on how to simplify your script, I'd 
send a note to the list or the the address I gave you.

>


James.




James.