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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: AppleScript Question(s)
Date: 30 Nov 2020 17:37:52 GMT
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On 2020-11-30, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> I've been hunting via google and other and can't answer my issue. I 
> want to change the font in a program using ab Apple dropdown 
> (pulldown?) that a few programs use.  It looks like this:
>
> 	https://snipboard.io/F4j6Xs.jpg
>
> I can't seem to figure out how to trigger a style from the displayed 
> menu. So I abandoned it when I saw a different approach that worked 
> well enough for DevonTHINK (see below).

User interface scripting (clicking things, etc) is *never* preferable
to using AppleScript commands supported by the application. It should be
done as a last resort, if at all.

> But this won't work in TextEdit, despite fiddling with the parms. If 
> there's a way to avoid it all and use the styles, menu, great. Failing 
> that--any aid on making the properties configuration approach (below) 
> work with TextEdit would do.

TextEdit has built-in AppleScript commands that let you modify text:

-- begin script
tell application "TextEdit"
    activate
    make new document with properties {text:"XDXDXD"}
    set theDesktopPath to the path to the desktop folder as text
    tell front document
        set font to "Comic Sans MS"
        set size to 40
        set its color to {65535, 0, 0}
    end tell
end tell
-- end script

<https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/345861/applescript-to-perform-actions-to-text-in-new-textedit-document>

You can view the AppleScript dictionary of any app by opening Script
Editor and choosing File > Open Dictionary, then choosing the app in
question.

> And if you know where *either* answers might be in AppleScripts for 
> Dummies, that would be swell too.

Don't have that book, sorry.

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