Language Guide

APPENDIX B

Scriptable Text Editor Dictionary

326 Scriptable Text Editor Object Class Deﬁnitions

Text Series of characters contained in the document

Text Item Text items contained in the document (see “Elements of Text

Objects” on page 314)

Word Words contained in the document

COMMANDS HANDLED

Close, Copy, Count, Delete, Duplicate, Exists, Get, Make, Move, Print, Revert,

Save, Select, Set

DEFAULT VALUE CLASS RETURNED

None; use Contents property to get the data of a document.

EXAMPLE

tell document "Colossal" of app "Scriptable Text Editor"

delete paragraphs 1 thru 10

end tell

NOTES

The window and document object classes can be used interchangeably. This

is because each open document has a window, whose elements and properties

are always the same as those of its document. For example, if the ﬁrst open

document is named Giant, the ﬁrst window is also named Giant. A Scriptable

Text Editor document and its window contain the same text elements, so

references to text elements in a document and its window can be used

interchangeably. For example, word 1 of document "Giant" and word

1 of window "Giant" refer to the same word.

Both the Bounds and Position properties are speciﬁed in terms of points on the

display. The Position property contains a single point: the upper-left corner of

the window’s content region (the portion of the window within the “window

frame” made up of the title bar and scroll bars). The Bounds property contains

two points: the upper-left corner of the content region followed by the

lower-right corner. In AppleScript, points are speciﬁed by pairs of integers

known as coordinates. The ﬁrst coordinate in the pair, known as the

x-coordinate, speciﬁes the distance from the left edge of the display to the