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Chapter 10 - Scripting Components / Scripting Components Reference

AppleScript Component Routines / Getting and Setting Styles for Source Data

ASGetSourceStyles

You can use the ASGetSourceStyles function to get the script format styles currently used by the AppleScript component to display scripts.

FUNCTION ASGetSourceStyles 
                  (scriptingComponent: ComponentInstance;
                   VAR resultingSourceStyles: STHandle): OSAError;

scriptingComponent

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

resultingSourceStyles

A handle to a style element array defined by the TextEdit data type TEStyleTable that defines the styles used for different kinds of AppleScript terms.

DESCRIPTION

The ASGetSourceStyles function returns a style element array that defines the nine styles used for AppleScript terms.

You can use these index constants to identify individual styles returned in the resultingSourceStyles parameter:

CONST
   kASSourceStyleUncompiledText     = 0;
   kASSourceStyleNormalText         = 1;
   kASSourceStyleLanguageKeyword    = 2;
   kASSourceStyleApplicationKeyword = 3;
   kASSourceStyleComment            = 4;
   kASSourceStyleLiteral            = 5;
   kASSourceStyleUserSymbol         = 6;
   kASSourceStyleObjectSpecifier    = 7;
   kASNumberOfSourceStyles          = 8;

Other AppleScript dialects may define additional styles. When you have finished using the style element array, you must dispose of it.

RESULT CODES

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

SEE ALSO

For information about the TEStyleTable array, see Inside Macintosh: Text.