snippet 1a
on removeText(searchText, sourceText)
set prevTIDs to text item delimiters of AppleScript
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to searchText
set sourceText to text items of sourceText
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to ""
set sourceText to "" & sourceText
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to prevTIDs
return sourceText
end removeText
snippet 2a
on removeText(searchText, sourceText)
set prevTIDs to text item delimiters of AppleScript
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to searchText
set sourceText to text items of sourceText
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to ""
set sourceText to "" & sourceText
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to prevTIDs
return sourceText
end removeText
set theSentence to "I love Windows and I will always love Windows."
set theSentence to removeText("Windows", theSentence)
I found this subroutine (snippet 1a) is handy in snippet 2a and want to reuse it by calling its name. I googled for howto. Then I saved snippet 1a as /Users/henry/Library/Script\ Libraries/text.scpt
and in snippet 2a I replaced
snippet 1b
on removeText(searchText, sourceText)
set prevTIDs to text item delimiters of AppleScript
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to searchText
set sourceText to text items of sourceText
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to ""
set sourceText to "" & sourceText
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to prevTIDs
return sourceText
end removeText
with
snippet 3
use script "text"
and got snippet 2b and then I ran snippet 2b, but I got an error saying «script» doesn’t understand the “removeText” message.
Reference: "use statement" (refer to the part found by searching use script "Happy Fun Ball"
in https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/applescript/conceptual/applescriptlangguide/reference/ASLR_control_statements.html)
So I went back to google and found one suggesting I should save snippet 1a as "a script application".
Reference 2: at the bottom of https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/applescript/conceptual/applescriptlangguide/conceptual/ASLR_about_handlers.html
In that one's example, it's
snippet 4
tell application "NonStayOpen"
launch
stringTest("Some example text.")
end tell
so I exported snippet 1a as /Users/henry/Library/Script\ Libraries/text.app
and wrote snippet 2c
snippet 2c
tell application "text"
launch
set theSentence to "I love Windows and I will always love Windows."
set theSentence to removeText("Windows", theSentence)
end tell
Then I ran it and got an error {} doesn't match the parameters {searchText,
sourceText} for removeText.
Afterwards, I have tried firstly to append removeText(searchText, sourceText)
to snippet 1a (getting snippet 1c) and exported it to replace /Users/henry/Library/Script\ Libraries/text.app
but got an error when running, failed;
secondly to replace removeText(searchText, sourceText)
with removeText()
in snippet 1a (getting snippet 1d) and exported it to replace /Users/henry/Library/Script\ Libraries/text.app
but got an error when running, failed.
In snippet 2a, how do I call/reuse a subroutine (snippet 1a) from another AppleScript or "script application" (see Reference 2)?