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Chapter 10 - Scripting Components / Scripting Components Reference

Optional Scripting Component Routines / Compiling Scripts

OSACopyID

You can use the OSACopyID function to update script data after editing or recording and to perform undo or revert operations on script data.

FUNCTION OSACopyID(scriptingComponent: ComponentInstance;
                   fromID: OSAID;
                   VAR toID: OSAID): OSAError;

scriptingComponent

A component instance created by a prior call to the Component Manager function OpenDefaultComponent or OpenComponent (see page 10-4).

fromID

The script ID for script data that you want to be associated with the script ID in the toID parameter.

toID

The script ID for the script data to be replaced. If the value of this parameter is kOSANullScript, the OSACopyID function returns a new script ID.

DESCRIPTION

The OSACopyID function replaces the script data identified by the script ID in the toID parameter with the script data identified by the script ID in the fromID parameter.

RESULT CODES

noErr	0	No error
errOSASystemError	-1750	General scripting system error
errOSAInvalidID	-1751	Invalid script ID
badComponentInstance	$80008001	Invalid component instance