At 12:28 PM -0800 3/29/06, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>On 3/29/06 12:20 PM, "Bill Steele" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>> On 3/29/06 1:07 PM, Bill Steele <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  But in Filemaker 8's "Perform Applescript" function this gives an error
>>>>  "Expected end of line but found identifier" with theText highlighted.
>>>>
>>>>  Seems especially stupid to let me open a file but not write to it. What's
>>>>  going on here?
>>>
>>> I've noticed this before, too. For some reason wrapping it all in a Finder
>>> tell-block will make it work.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> Bill
>>
>> Unfortunately, it's already in a Tex-Edit Plus tell block.  I think I
>> can work around with TE's stupefy, but it's still annoying.
>
>Just write a one-line handler that does the writing, outside any tell block, and call the handler.

 I've used that recently for the same reason (though not with FileMaker Pro). An application was co-opting the term "offset" but not actually giving me the offset. A handler outside of the tell block fixed it.

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