Running Applescripts within Appleworks

Hello all,

With the help of this group my envelop printing script is now as
follows. I am planning to use this within Appleworks 6. This script
runs fine from within the "script editor" with an address select
in an AW6 document. However when I copy the script to the appleworks
script folder as an application it fails as follows:

While executing the script "Print Seolection.app",
the scripting system reported that the application
"AppleWorks 6.2.9" encountered error -1727:

"Expected a reference"

Regards Fergus.


property envelopedoc : ""
if FileMissing(envelopedoc) then
set envelopedoc to choose file with prompt "Please select the
envelope template to use"
end if

on FileMissing(someFile)
try
set someFile to (someFile as text)
set anAlias to (someFile as alias)
return false
on error
return true
end try
end FileMissing

tell application "AppleWorks 6.2.9"
activate
try
set selectedText to selection of front document
if length of selectedText is less than 20 then
say "Nothing worth printing"
return
end if
set the clipboard to selectedText
open envelopedoc
set envelopename to name of front document
select document envelopename
paste
select text of document envelopename
set font of selection to "Helvetica"
set size of selection to 15
print front document with print dialog
close document envelopename without saving
on error theerror
close document envelopename without saving
display dialog theerror
display dialog "Unable to print envelope." buttons {"OK"}
default button "OK" with icon 0
end try
end tell

On 11/06/2008, fergus DeleteThis @twig.demon.co.uk wrote in message <1e0bfc89-06de-
4521-b737-1e8a1af7acc3 DeleteThis @i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>:

> With the help of this group my envelop printing script is now as
> follows. I am planning to use this within Appleworks 6. This script
> runs fine from within the "script editor" with an address select
> in an AW6 document. However when I copy the script to the appleworks
> script folder as an application it fails as follows:
>
> While executing the script "Print Seolection.app",
> the scripting system reported that the application
> "AppleWorks 6.2.9" encountered error -1727:
>
> "Expected a reference"

Read the documentation that comes with AppleWorks about how to write
scripts and take a look at the example scripts. A script run within
AppleWorks can't address AppleWorks in that way.

Simon.
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