I'm very new to Applescript-ObjC and am trying to do something pretty simple. I have this applescript app that I've been using to convert text to Title Case and ALL CAPS. The app works great. But when I try to bring it into the Xcode AppDelegate.applescript and attach it to buttons on the UI, nothing happens. I ran the 'Build' without errors but it simple doesn't do anything when I open the app and click the buttons.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
(BTW this script is from http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?pid=42284#p42284)
script AppDelegate
property parent : class "NSObject"
-- IBOutlets
on applicationWillFinishLaunching_(aNotification)
-- Insert code here to initialize your application before any files are opened
end applicationWillFinishLaunching_
on applicationShouldTerminate_(sender)
-- Insert code here to do any housekeeping before your application quits
return current application's NSTerminateNow
end applicationShouldTerminate_
############# My Buttons #############
-- Title Case --
on clickTitleCase_(sender)
set someText to the clipboard
set newCase to (changeCase of someText to "title") (* "upper", "lower", "sentence", "capitalized" or "title" *)
set the clipboard to newCase
end clickTitleCase_
-- All CAPS --
on clickALLCAPs_(sender)
set someText to the clipboard
set newCase to (changeCase of someText to "upper") (* "upper", "lower", "sentence", "capitalized" or "title" *)
set the clipboard to newCase
end clickALLCAPs_
############# Text Conversion Handlers #############
property lowerStr : "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzáàâäãåæçéèêëíìîïñóòôöõōøœúùûüÿ"
property upperStr : "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÁÀÂÄÃÅÆÇÉÈÊËÍÌÎÏÑÓÒÔÖÕŌØŒÚÙÛÜŸ"
property alphaList : lowerStr's characters & reverse of upperStr's characters
property sentenceBreak : {".", "!", "?"}
property wordBreak : {space, ASCII character 202, tab}
property everyBreak : wordBreak & sentenceBreak
property whiteSpace : wordBreak & {return, ASCII character 10}
property currList : missing value
property sentenceModList : {"i", "i'm", "i’m", "i've", "i’ve", "I’ve", "I've", "I’m", "I'm", "I"} (* could be extended to include certain proper nouns, acronyms, etc. *)
property mixedModList : {"A", "For", "So", "An", "In", "The", "And", "Nor", "To", "At", "Of", "Up", "But", "On", "Yet", "By", "Or", "Usa", "Nasa", "Hiv", "Aids", "Vs", "Pm", "Wef", "Wwf", "Nsx", "NSX", "WWF", "WEF", "PM", "vs", "AIDS", "HIV", "NASA", "USA", "or", "by", "yet", "on", "but", "up", "of", "at", "to", "nor", "and", "the", "in", "an", "so", "for", "a"}
on textItems from currTxt
tell (count currTxt's text items) to if it > 4000 then tell it div 2 to return my (textItems from (currTxt's text 1 thru text item it)) & my (textItems from (currTxt's text from text item (it + 1) to -1))
currTxt's text items
end textItems
on initialCap(currTxt)
tell currTxt to if (count words) > 0 then tell word 1's character 1 to if it is in lowerStr then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to it
tell my (textItems from currTxt) to return beginning & upperStr's character ((count lowerStr's text item 1) + 1) & rest
end if
currTxt
end initialCap
to capItems from currTxt against breakList
repeat with currBreak in breakList
set text item delimiters to currBreak
if (count currTxt's text items) > 1 then
set currList to my (textItems from currTxt)
repeat with n from 2 to count currList
set my currList's item n to initialCap(my currList's item n)
end repeat
set text item delimiters to currBreak's contents
tell my currList to set currTxt to beginning & ({""} & rest)
end if
end repeat
currTxt
end capItems
on modItems from currTxt against modList
set currList to modList
set currCount to (count modList) div 2
repeat with currBreak in everyBreak
set text item delimiters to currBreak
if (count currTxt's text items) > 1 then repeat with n from 1 to currCount
set text item delimiters to my currList's item n & currBreak
if (count currTxt's text items) > 1 then
set currTxt to textItems from currTxt
set text item delimiters to my currList's item -n & currBreak
tell currTxt to set currTxt to beginning & ({""} & rest)
end if
end repeat
end repeat
currTxt
end modItems
to changeCase of currTxt to caseType
if (count currTxt's words) is 0 then return currTxt
ignoring case
tell caseType to set {upper_Case, lower_Case, sentence_Case, capitalized_Case, title_Case} to {it is "upper", it is "lower", it is "sentence", it is "capitalized", it is "title"}
end ignoring
if not (upper_Case or lower_Case or capitalized_Case or sentence_Case or title_Case) then
error "The term \"" & caseType & "\" is not a valid case type option. Please use \"upper\", \"lower\", \"sentence\", \"title\" or \"mixed\"."
else if upper_Case then
set n to 1
else
set n to -1
end if
considering case
set tid to text item delimiters
repeat with n from n to n * (count lowerStr) by n
set text item delimiters to my alphaList's item n
set currTxt to textItems from currTxt
set text item delimiters to my alphaList's item -n
tell currTxt to set currTxt to beginning & ({""} & rest)
end repeat
if sentence_Case then
set currTxt to initialCap(modItems from (capItems from currTxt against sentenceBreak) against sentenceModList)
else if capitalized_Case or title_Case then
set currTxt to initialCap(capItems from currTxt against whiteSpace)
if title_Case then set currTxt to initialCap(capItems from (modItems from currTxt against mixedModList) against sentenceBreak)
end if
set text item delimiters to tid
end considering
currTxt
end changeCase
end script
Per the above posters' suggestions, I was able to use NSString uppercaseString to solve this problem:
use AppleScript version "2.4"
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions
set aPhrase to "this is 'a' test phrase with 'punctuation'"
its makeTitleCase(aPhrase)
on makeTitleCase(stringOfText)
set makeLowerCaseList to {"A", "For", "So", "An", "In", "The", "And", "Nor", "To", "At", "Of", "Up", "But", "On", "Yet", "By", "Or"}
set theString to current application's NSString's stringWithString:stringOfText
set theString to (theString's capitalizedString())
set stringOfText to theString as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set listOfWords to text items of stringOfText
set listOfWords to listOfWords as list
repeat with x from 2 to count of listOfWords -- item 2 because per APA Style the first word is capitalized irregardless
set targetItem to (item x of listOfWords)
set aString to (" " & targetItem & " ")
set theWord to words of aString as list
repeat with y from 1 to count of makeLowerCaseList
set origWord to (item 1 of theWord) as text
set compareWord to (item y of makeLowerCaseList) as text
if origWord = compareWord then
set oneWord to (current application's NSString's stringWithString:(item x of listOfWords))
set item x of listOfWords to (oneWord's lowercaseString) as text
end if
end repeat
end repeat
return listOfWords as text
end makeTitleCase
on makeALLCAPS(stringOfText)
set theString to current application's NSString's stringWithString:stringOfText
set theString to (theString's uppercaseString())
set stringOfText to theString as text
return stringOfText
end makeALLCAPS