AppleScript Bug? BBEdit Returns typeHIPoint for Window Position

AppleScript
#1

Hey Folks,

BBEdit 14 is reporting a typeHIPoint rather than a list for a window position value.

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Rich says this is actually correct, but I’m not familiar with the datatype. He says he will fix the issue in a later release.

Does anyone know the details of this issue?

TIA.

-Chris

#2

I’ve never seen it in the wild. In the meantime, you can always use bounds instead.

#3

But of course, I’ve only been doing that for 26 years… :sunglasses:

I don’t want to argue with Rich, but I’ve never seen this issue outside of a couple of builds of BBEdit – and I wanted the no b.s. version.

-Chris

#4

BBEdit 14.0.1 just came out and fixed the problem.

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#5

At the moment of assignment, the data contained by position and size properties are partially (de)referenced. I was wondering whether dereferencing fully would have unwrapped that data wrapper. Either by coercing:

...position as {list, point, vector, anything}

or getting:

set windowPosition to get the position

or explicit dereferencing:

set windowPosition to the position's contents

or by adding a final line that evaluates the variable windowPosition:

windowPosition

or by enumerating the items through assignment:

set {windowLeft, windowTop} to the position

usw., usw., ….

Although you probably cannot test that now since the release of the update.

#6

I don’t think that’s true when the result is the typeHIPoint data-type.

It’s indivisible.

'hipt'($00000000000000000000000000804640$)

-Chris

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