Setting contents of text view

[PolarBear]

OK how come Set contents of text field “MyTextField” of window “MyWindow” to myString works but set contents of text view “MyTextField” of window “MyWindow” to myString doesn’t work?

I get NSRecieverEvaluationScriptError: 4 (1)

My text field wasn’t becoming scrollable when it had enough text to be scrollable even though I had the “Scrollable” check box checked in the inspector window so I changed it to a scrollable text view element.

How do you set the contents of a text view?

[jobu]

Remember, that text views are contained within a scroll view. Also, it’s not a good idea to set or get the “contents” of a text view when changing it’s string value. Instead, use “content”. So…

set content of text view "someTextView" of scroll view "someScrollView" of window "someWindow" to myString

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[PolarBear]

Interesting. I don’t suppose you could explain what the difference is between “Contents” and “Content”?

[Bruce_Phillips]

Check out the documentation for text views (under Version Notes):

@Terminology 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.

For a sample script that shows the difference between content and contents, see the Version Notes section for the control class.

[PolarBear]

Ah Yes, I see… Said the blind man yada yada yada

Thanx.