On Jun 7, 2010, at 12:08 PM, John Delacour wrote:

> At 08:37 -0400 7/6/10, Deivy Petrescu wrote:
> 
>> John,
>> I believe that with 10.6 (or 10.5, I am not sure, someone might clarify that)
>> 
>> Unicode text=text=string
>> 
>> so x as string is as good as x as Unicode text.
> 
> Unless, like me, you can't for the moment justify as computer that will run those things!
> 
> The wonderful thing now, of course, is that nearly every application has a scripting dictionary full of the same old incomprehensible garbage and no actual scriptability, with the noble exceptions of BBEdit, Smile etc.  It is anarchy on a Microsoftian scale.
> 



> Can you get the selected text using Apple events in TextEdit or Mail yet?  Does Preview for Snow Leopard understand Apple events?  Can you script the iMad?!!
> 

I see you did not lose your sense of humor....   :)

> JD

Deivy Petrescu
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