I can’t find the solution to this anywhere, hopefully you can help.
I’m writing an applescript that controls BBEdit’s wonderful find and replace function to modify a link in a web page. The value it modifies is based on a LastName field in a Filemaker database.
Here is the problem:
When I set the variable LastName in Filemaker, BBEdit errors during the replace step. But when I set the variable directly all works fine.
Here is how I set the variable in Filemaker:
tell application "FileMaker Developer"
tell current record of layout "data_entry_T"
--script doesn't work if setting LastName using Filemaker
set LastName to cell "Last Name" as string
end tell
end tell
When I set the variable LastName directly the script works.
set LastName to "Thiessen"This is the first time I’ve pulled data from Filemaker using applescript, could it be a text encoding problem?
I’ve analyzed the Script Editor Event log and everything appears OK.
Here is the step BBEdit errors on:
replace LastName using "test" searching in linklist saving yes options s_optionThe error from BBedit is:
“BBEdit got an error /Users/mthiesse/desktop/BALOG-BBVWRG-0012379.htm” doesn’t understand replace message."
Here is the entire code:
tell application "FileMaker Developer"
tell current record of layout "data_entry_T"
set LastName to cell "Last Name up" as string
end tell
end tell
tell application "BBEdit"
--script works when I set LastName using line below
--set LastName to "Balog"
set linklist to "/Users/mthiesse/desktop/" & LastName & "-" & "BBVWRG" & ".htm"
set s_option to {search mode:literal, starting at top:true, case sensitive:false, match words:true, extend selection:false, showing results:false}
replace LastName using "test" searching in linklist saving yes options s_option
end tell