I'm trying to learn AppleScript. What you see below a part of my 1st ambitious project. It's modified so that it can be test within the AppleScript editor if you also have an TextEdit window open.
What the script does:
My problem:
Aligning the windows works only if I dismiss the variable. As soon as I replace the variable returned from the list (selectedEditor) with a string tell process "TextEdit" it works.
I hope someone could spot the error.
Error code from the events log:
System Events got an error: Can’t make {"TextEdit"} into type integer.
Here's the code:
property myEditors : {"TextEdit", "Sublime Text 2"}
set the editorList to myEditors as list
set selectedEditor to choose from list the editorList
set lngWidth to word 3 of (do shell script "defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver | grep -w Width")
set lngHeight to word 3 of (do shell script "defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver | grep -w Height")
set lngHalf to lngWidth / 2
set lngHeight to lngHeight - 22
tell application id "sevs"
tell process selectedEditor to tell window 1 to set {position, size} to {{lngHalf, 22}, {lngHalf, lngHeight}}
tell process "AppleScript Editor" to tell window 1 to set {position, size} to {{0, 22}, {lngHalf, lngHeight}}
end tell
The error "System Events got an error: Can’t make {"TextEdit"} into type integer." is telling you the problem. {"TextEdit"} is a list with one item. That's what you get back from the "choose from list" statement. Therefore change that statement to this...
set selectedEditor to item 1 of (choose from list the editorList)
That will give you "TextEdit", which is a string, as opposed to {"TextEdit"} which is a list.
Also, this statement is unnecessary because myEditors is already a list as evidenced by the brackets around it. Just use myEditors directly in the "choose from list" command.
set the editorList to myEditors as list