Mark,

Thanks

I tried that one, and got

QuarkXPress got an error: Can't set paragraph 1 of every text box of 
document 1 whose name = "sample.txt" to "hello"

It seems there is some sort of conversion error as it has an '=' after 
name instead of 'is'. It gives you the same error if you put in the 
wrong text box name, so I suspect the 'whose' is broken.

Then I tried "contains" instead of 'is" and it still tosses an error, 
but it knows I had asked for 'contains'

Then I tried 'begins with" and it tosses an error with "starts with".

I guess I will just need to change the names of the text boxes so that 
there are no duplicates.

Lloyd

> From: Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]>
>
> On Jan 17, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Lloyd Butler wrote:
>
>> ok, it is not so shocking knowing the application.
>>
>> I am in the process of moving to Quark 6.5 ( I know it is a couple of 
>> versions old) from v3 and v4. It runs on the Intel machines where v3 
>> or v4 do not.
>>
>> While testing my scripts, I noticed that in versions 3 and 4 if two 
>> text boxes on the page had the same name, both would be filled in.
>>
>> In 6.5, it is only the top most text box that gets populated.
>>
>> If I take and manually select the other box and bring it to the top, 
>> and rerun the script, that text box gets the text.
>>
>> Is there a way to get both filled in without changing one of the 
>> names?
>>
>> tell application "QuarkXpress"
>>   tell document "test.qxd"
>>     set paragraph 1 of text box "sample.txt" to "hello world"
>>
> Set paragraph 1 of every text box whose name is "sample.txt" to "hello 
> world"
>
>>   end tell
>> end tell
>>
>> I have all the code in a script library that allows me to pass in the 
>> layout name, paragraph, text box name and the text. If I need to 
>> start to jump through hoops to handle this, then I need to know what 
>> to test for to catch the 2+ text boxes with the same names.
>
> I am surprised that 3 and 4 didn't error on you.
>