Help with Clipboard Command

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#1

I’m experimenting with AS at the moment and wondering why the command
(from the standards additions dictionary)

set the clipboard to graphic object n of document 1

and the event log has {{reference, 152}} for the command ‘clipboard info’,
which leaves no graphic object in the clipboard)

but when I substitute ‘set the clipboard …’ with

copy to clipboard (the clipboard graphic object n of document 1)

(which is something I chanced upon and is not written anywhere I can see)
and the event log has {{picture, 338}} for the command ‘clipboard info’,
which does leave the correct graphic object in the clipboard.

Any help would be appreciated.
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#2

Hi mlsteiner.

One possible reason why nobody’s responded yet to your question might be that, out of context, it’s a little tricky to place. However, my guess is that your snippets were extracted from an AppleWorks 6 application tell statement.

If this is the case, then your earlier script would be setting the clipboard to a reference, such as: graphic object n of drawing area of document “whatever” of application “AppleWorks 6”. Unfortunately, that’s not something the clipboard really knows how to interpret too well - so we need a way to dereference it to a form that the clipboard can handle. Fortunately, AppleWorks provides a built-in method for doing just that. It’s the command you stumbled upon, copy to clipboard - from the AppleWorks Suite of the AppleWorks AS dictionary.