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MrMannWood
MrMannWood

Reputation: 566

Setting the contents of the clipboard in AppleScript

I want to set the contents of the clipboard to a variable. I've done this before, and it should be simple enough, but I'm getting an error.

on checkiPadFinished()
    set tempiPadSerial to "b"
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "iTunes"
            keystroke "c" using {command down}
            set tempiPadSerial to the clipboard as string
            if firstiPadSerial is tempiPadSerial then
                return true
            else if firstiPadSerial is "a" then
                set firstiPadSerial to the clipboard as string
            end if
        end tell
    end tell
    return false
end checkiPadFinished

Earlier in my code I declare global variables

global XXX, yyy, zzz, firstiPadSerial set firstiPadSerial to "a"

The call to checkiPadFinished() looks like:

set doneiPads to my checkiPadFinished()

As far as I can tell everything should work, but instead I'm getting a cryptic error message.

EDIT: without changing anything it's running. I'm at a loss. I wish that I had written down the error message. But I hit the go button for the 10th time and it worked, so I can't even say what the message was.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6324

Answers (1)

adayzdone
adayzdone

Reputation: 11238

Try:

  activate application "iTunes"
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "iTunes"
        select row 15 of outline 1 of scroll area 2 of window "iTunes"
        keystroke "c" using {command down}
        delay 0.5 -- jackjr300's suggestion
        set xxx to the clipboard
    end tell
end tell

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Upvotes: 1

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