problem opening Appleworks document

Anybody able to tell me where I am going wrong in the following:-


tell application "AppleWorks 6.2.9"
activate
try
set selectedText to selection of front document
set envelope to "TechmorePB:stationary:GPEnvelope10.cwk"

-- gave up with the above and tried a choose!
set envelope to choose file
open document envelope
display dialog "doc opened" buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
with icon 1
paste
select menu item "Print…" of menu "File"
on error
display dialog "Unable to print envelope." buttons {"OK"} default
button "OK" with icon 0
end try
end tell

I cannot get the document to open at all using applescript. The document
GPEnvelope10.cwk is a plain AW document and opens fine in AW. I am
running under Mac OS X 10.5.2 leopard.

In article <1ihuiga.1r2wb0cuqrx0sN%fergus@twig.me.uk>,
fergus RemoveThis @twig.me.uk (Fergus McMenemie) wrote:

> Anybody able to tell me where I am going wrong in the following:-
>
(snip)
>
> I cannot get the document to open at all using applescript. The document
> GPEnvelope10.cwk is a plain AW document and opens fine in AW. I am
> running under Mac OS X 10.5.2 leopard.

What happens when you run it with the try block disabled (commented
out)?

It's always a good idea to disable try blocks when you are debugging
AppleScripts, because try blocks cause AppleScript not to display error
messages it would otherwise display.

Note that you can write try blocks such that they do display error
messages when errors occur, like so:

try
..
..
..
on error msg number num
display alert "Script Error" message msg & ¬
return & return & ¬
"Error code: " & num ¬
buttons "OK" default button 1 as critical
end try

But, as I said, it's better to disable the try block altogether when you
are debugging script problems.

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