Applescript help

[Michael Grant]

On Nov 21, 2003, at 4:33 PM, Jon Muller wrote:

> Ok.  So my proposed solution was to create a new column to the left of 
> the paragraphs and fill it with check-off boxes.  There is no 
> parent-child link to these boxes so I am free to check whatever I 
> want.  The new column is titled "Print".
>
> The problem is that I know virtually nothing about Applescript and do 
> not know how modify the above script to look at the checkboxes in the 
> Print column, instead of the "state" checkboxes.  Any of you 
> Applescript whizzes out there know if this can be done and what should 
> be added to make it work?

Something along the following lines should do it (untested as such but 
simplified from a functioning script I run here):

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tell application "OmniOutliner"
	-- Identify "Print" column:
	-- this section enables you to rearrange columns,
	-- but will cause your script to fail
	-- if you delete or rename the "Print" column.
	tell document 1
		repeat with i from 1 to (count of every column)
			if the title of column i is "Print" then
				set checkCol to i
				exit repeat
			end if
		end repeat
	end tell

	-- Now loop through all the rows:
	repeat with aRow in (every row of document 1)
		-- The if statement works for
		-- both checked and mixed-state checkboxes:
		if the value of cell checkCol of aRow is greater than 0 then
			-- Do your print routine here
		end if
	end repeat
end tell

/////

Michael

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