AppleScript: Set Selected Rows

[Timothy J.Wood]

On Dec 30, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Michael Terry wrote:
> Is there a way to set the selected rows in Outliner 3 via AppleScript? 
> This was possible in prior versions, and I rely on it in some scripts.

	selected rows of MyDocument

> I don't understand why selected row didn't just remain a property, 
> instead of now being a class in itself. The way it is now, to add a 
> selected row to a document you'd have to do something like:

   It is a relationship (since it is to-many now, AppleScript requires 
this).  In OO2 you could only access the first selected row, not 
multiple selection (which is all that can be done with a property).

> make selected row
>
> ... but you would need to specify an insertion location, which doesn't 
> make very much sense, since a selected row maps onto a regular row. 
> The 'selected row' class would have to add a property that allows the 
> scripter to identify the new selected row with an already existing row 
> in the document.

   'make selected row' will do something bizarre -- nothing useful can 
come of it, I think :)

   If you want to add a row to the selection:

	add MyRow to selected rows of MyDocument

> I think either 'selected rows' should be a property of the document, 
> which is simple and easy and similar to other programs, or there 
> should now also be a 'selection-object' class (c.f., Script Editor's 
> dictionary) with which you can use the 'add' and 'remove' commands.

   We are trying to conform to the Scripting Interface Guidelines Tech 
Note <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2106.html> in this 
respect (i.e., the 'add' and 'remove' commands).

-tim