Apple Pages - Scripting Bridge and contents of selection

Question

I am trying to use Apple Pages (from iWork) with Objective-C's Scripting Bridge.

This is the working AppleScript:

tell application "Pages"
    set name of item 1 of contents of (get selection) to "myLittleTextBox"
end tell

How can I achieve the same thing in Objective-C with Scripting Bridge?

I tried the tip under Cocoa Scripting Bridge and <contents> element but no luck ...

The strange thing is that reading the properties is no problem:

PagesApplication *myPages = [SBApplication applicationWithBundleIdentifier:@"com.apple.iWork.Pages"];
NSLog(@"myPages.selection.properties:%@",myPages.selection.properties);

... but I've had no luck setting or accessing the objects in the selection.

Of course, I could send the AppleScript via NSAppleScript but hey, that would be too easy. ;)

Answer 1

Well I can get the property item. The returned property object is an Array.

id  selObject = pages.selection.properties;


NSString*  theName = [[selObject objectAtIndex:0]objectForKey:@"name"];
NSLog(@"theName = %@",theName);

And to set it:

 id selObject2 =  pages.selection.get;


[selObject2 setValue:@"myPage"  forKey:@"name"];