changing color & adding text in a text view

[patrick99e99]

Hi… I created a window in IB with a text view that I labeled “Texttest”

According to apple’s documentation, this should work:

tell text view "Texttest" of scroll view "Texttest" of window "main" set text color to {0, 65535, 0} end tell set contents of text view "Texttest" of scroll view "Texttest" of window "main" to "Hello this is a test"
yet I get an error every time… I actually can’t see anything about “scroll view” anywhere… so I never actually labelled scroll view… Is that my problem?

Or is there another problem?

[Reikon]

Double click the text view. Thats the scroll view. Name it the same as the text view.

[patrick99e99]

Ah thank you…

How can I set certain words to certain colors?

[SwissalpS]

something in this vein will get you there:

set fontDone to {"Arial Black", 28}
set positionOfWord to 23
set excerciseTextView to text view 1 of scroll view 1 of window 1

		call method "setFont:" of (exerciseTextView's word positionOfWord) with parameter (call method "fontWithName:size:" of class "NSFont" with parameters fontDone)

also try content in place of contents
sometimes that “s” is the cause of on error (even if the documentation states to use it)

[Bruce_Phillips]

@SwissalpS

also try content in place of contents
sometimes that “s” is the cause of on error (even if the documentation states to use it)

@Terminlogy Reference

The content property was added in AppleScript Studio version 1.2. You can use content and contents interchangeably, with one exception. (These properties came over from the text class to the text view class in AppleScript Studio version 1.3.) Within an event handler, contents of theObject returns a reference to an object, rather than the actual contents. To get the actual contents of an object (such as the text contents from a text field) within an event handler, you can either use contents of contents of theObject or content of theObject.

See also: Text View Suite

[SwissalpS]

@Bruce Phillips

@Terminlogy Reference

… Within an event handler, contents of theObject returns a reference to an object, rather than the actual contents. To get the actual contents of an object (such as the text contents from a text field) within an event handler, you can either use contents of contents of theObject or content of theObject.

Thanks Bruce, I missed that part.
Appears to me that in an Xcode project we are calling sub-handlers from event handlers which places the sub “in the event handler”. I’ll keep that in mind.