handle documents

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#1

I set up a doucument based ASS App. I can save and open but have some circumstances I can not see why?

If I have no document open and open a saved one a new doc is build with the right content, if I have a doc open and open a saved one the content will be loaded to the already open window (independent of a potential content - it will be added if there is content) and a new blank document open up as well.

Also, when I added content to a doc and close it there’s no automatic option that says “it is not saved, do you want to save it now?”.

I tooked a deeper look to the “tasklist” example from apple and it seems, that I set all in the same way, but in “tasklist” everything wor like it should.

So what is wrong?

This is my data representation code:


on data representation theObject of type ofType
	set kara_window to window 1 of theObject
	set kara_source to data source of table view "view" of scroll view "view" of kara_window
	set kara_content to contents of every data cell of every data row of kara_source
	set kara_data to {names:kara_content}
	return kara_data
end data representation


on load data representation theObject of type ofType with data kara_data
	set kara_window to window 1 of theObject
	set kara_source to data source of table view "view" of scroll view "view" of kara_window
	append the kara_source with (names of kara_data)
	return true
end load data representation

thx -ph

#2

From the looks of things, it appears that you are setting kara_window to the already open window. Try changing

set kara_window to window 1 of theObject

to:

set kara_window to item 1 of (window of theobject)

I found, looking at 1 of my projects, that the window comes in list form.

When you do something to modify the document, add the following to your code:

set the modified of the document of kara_window to true

Hope this helps,
Brad Bumgarner, CTA

#3 

set the modified of the document of kara_window to true

works great. The other works half and half. If I open the doc without another doc open I get a new doc with the content and the doc icon on top of the window. If I have an open doc and open my saved doc it loads the content to the already open doc and opens the doc without the expected content.

#4

try putting a log statement in the load data representation statement for theObject, i.e.:

on load data representation theObject of type ofType with data kara_data
     log theObject
     . . .
     . . .
end data representation

I’ll admit, this is off the top of my head. I use log statements frequently to find out how data is handled. You may need to be more specific with the log statement.

Hope this helps,
Brad Bumgarner, CTA

#5

The log file tells me the same for both cases. Hmmmm.

But i figured out, that the described case only happens, if the new document is unsaved.

Perhaps this lets you have another idea ;-).

But till here lot of thanks!

#6

What verion of Applescript Studio are you using? There were changes made (dealing with documents, among other things) between vers. 1.2 and 1.3.

Other than that, I don’t have any other suggestions.
Brad Bumgarner, CTA

#7

Have version 1.2 will upgrade now to 1.3 and see whats happen. Thank you very much!

#8

Sorry to bump old threads, but I have this exact same problem with my application. Task List works fine; mine, which is based off Task List, does not.
Does anybody have any clues as to why this happens?

I suppose this is a rather minor issue, but I would like anyone with information about this to please post as this is very annoying…

I think there could be a possible workaround by getting the user to save the document before working on it, but how would this be done?