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Change the Contents of Text Fields

This is pretty basic, but we all need to start somewhere. To change the contents of a text field (any NSTextField, including Labels), simple issue this kind of command:

set contents of text field "myTextField" of window "myWindow" to "Hello, World."

Make sure the “name” (not the “title”) of your target object (in this case “myTextField”) is correct in your NIB file in Interface Builder.

This was written by K. M. Lawson. Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008, at 11:12 pm. Filed under Applescript, Applescript Studio, Code Sample. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.