Quark object reference query...

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#1

Hi Everyone,

Hopefully someone might be able to point me in the right direction with this query.
As yet I’ve not been able to come up with a solution.

Let’s say the text below is a line of copy in a Quark text box. The words in bold are coloured Magenta.
Here’s the line:-
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

I can create an object reference to the first and last words of the line like this:-

set x to object reference of every line of text box 1 whose color of first word is "Magenta"

set y to object reference of every line of text box 1 whose color of last word is "Magenta"

Those references work fine.

What I’d like to be able to do is create an object reference to a line of text where any word, in it, is coloured Magenta. As shown, I can only get this to work for the first and last words.

Is this possible?

Thanks.

Nick

#2

Hi Nik

Does this work?
Not had much chance to test though .

tell application "QuarkXPress"
	tell document 1
		set x to object reference of every word of every line of text box 1 whose color is "Magenta"
	end tell
end tell
#3

Hi Pidge,

Thanks for your time on this.

From just a quick play around it looks like it might be doing what I need. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

Nick

#4

Just one further question on this.
Is it possible to pull out the line from this object reference?

Here is what I get returned:-

text from character 71 to character 76 of line 3 of text box 1 of document “test_doc” of application “QuarkXPress”

I think I can manage without, I just wondered if it was possible?

Thanks,

Nick

#5

Hi Nik

if i understand what your after then it can be done but it ain’t very straight forward.

Doing a search on these forums you need to trap the reference as an error then use applescript delimiters to
extract the reference out of the resulting error message.

i reckon if you really really need this info then you might find yourself going round the houses a bit.

Do a search for “object reference”