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MENU ELEMENTS AND REFERENCE FORMS
BEFORE/
BY AFTER
ELEMENT NUMERIC BY BY BY SATISFYING ANOTHER
CLASS INDEX ID NAME RANGE A TEST ELEMENT
menu item • •
MENU PROPERTIES, DATA TYPES, AND DESCRIPTIONS
R/O PROPERTY NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION
• ID small integer ID of this menu
• index integer Index of this menu
•
name international Name of this menu
text
CHARACTER SPEC EVENTS AND EXAMPLES
VERB APPLESCRIPT EXAMPLE
count count every character spec
data size data size of name of character spec “Enhanced” as integer
delete delete character spec “BodyCopy”
duplicate duplicate character spec “Enhanced” to after character spec 3
get get name of color of character spec 1
get as get key character of character spec “Enhanced” as string
make make character spec at beginning
move move character spec “Enhanced” to before character spec 1
set set name of character spec 1 to “Header”
CHARACTER SPEC ELEMENTS AND REFERENCE FORMS
None
CHARACTER SPEC PROPERTIES, DATA TYPES, AND DESCRIPTIONS
R/O PROPERTY NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION
base shift base units Baseline shift of this
character spec
base style character spec Character spec (reference)
that this character spec is
based on
• best type type class Best descriptor type
• class type class Class descriptor type
color color spec Text color of this charac-
ter spec
REFERENCE MATERIAL FOR QUARKXPRESS OBJECTS
A GUIDE TO APPLE EVENTS SCRIPTING
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