Apple Text Box?

Stephen Barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Thu Apr 3 17:49:13 EDT 2008


I think he means the box you get when you type cmd-T in TextEdit.

It shows all the fonts and families and other font style stuff and 
also has a convenient slider for Text size. Is this apple-scriptable?


>Hi Paul,
>
>Do you mean the character palette? If you know how to do it, it is 
>very simple:
>
>tell application "Finder"
>	open item 
>"System:Library:Components:CharacterPalette.component:Contents:SharedSupport:CharPaletteServer" 
>of the startup disk
>end tell
>
>Mind line wraps. This should work in Tiger and Leopard. Courtesy of 
>MacOSXHints.com.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Mark Schonewille
>
>--
>
>Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
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>
>A large collection of scripts for HyperCard, Revolution, SuperCard 
>and other programming languages can be found at http://runrev.info
>
>
>
>
>On 3 apr 2008, at 22:48, Paul Gabel wrote:
>>Hi everyone:
>>
>>Is it possible within a Rev standalone to call up the Apple Text 
>>Box, similarly to how "answer color" will bring up the Color Box?
>>
>>Paul Gabel
>
>

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