Been burned by that one more than once, so yup, the names are correct.

I can put the two text boxes on a page, and put text into one, and then 
select the other and bring it to the front and have the script to put 
text into that box. It just will not put text into both at the same 
time like the older versions.

If it wasn't so much work to redo everything in InDesign, I may have 
thought about changing.

Lloyd

>
> From: Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: January 21, 2007 6:55:39 PM EST
> Subject: Re: Quark 6.5 scripting oddity
>
>
> Are you sure the name matches are exact.  Quark is case sensitive.
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2007, at 6:42 PM, Lloyd Butler wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>>