Scripting Bridge, ability to get ranges from an SBElementArray

Originator:amorya
Number:rdar://19353255 Date Originated:28-Dec-2014 06:41 PM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:OS X Product Version:Mac OS X 10.10.1 (14B25)
Classification:Other Bug Reproducible:Not Applicable
 
I’m trying to work with rich text through the Scripting Bridge. The idiom I’m trying to use is “apply this font name to characters 5-9”, for example. In Applescript I could just do “characters 5 thru 9”, but in Scripting Bridge I can’t find an equivalent.

I’d like an API like this:

- (SBElementArray*)[SBElementArray objectWithRange:(NSString*)rangeString]

This would return another SBElementArray, which would be able to correctly proxy commands to the subset using only one AppleEvent.

Current workaround: iterate, and send one Apple Event per character. Very inefficient and slow.

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