Script to change text format by cue colour?

[Amelia Hawkes]

Hiya, I am a bit stuck on a script that changes a text cues font by the cue colour and I was wondering if a) What I'm trying to do is possible and b) where I'm going wrong! 

Alternatively, if theres a way (or script) to just select cues by cue colour then I can paste cue properties. 

I am new to scripting so forgive any silly mistakes, here's where I got to: 

tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.5" to tell front workspace
set selectedCues to (selected as list)
repeat with eachcue in selectedCues
if q color of eachcue is "red" then
set theFormat to {fontName:"Andale Mono"}
set text format of "selectedCues" to theFormat

end if
end repeat
end tell

(Running up to date Qlab 5) 

Cheers in advance! - Millie

[Rich Walsh]

You’re very close… Swap:

set text format of "selectedCues" to theFormat

For:

set text format of eachcue to theFormat

Or, to do every cue in the workspace:

tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.5" to tell front workspace

repeat with eachCue in (cues whose q color is "red")

set theFormat to {fontName:"Andale Mono"}

set text format of eachCue to theFormat

end repeat

end tell

Rich

[Rich Walsh]

Actually, for a marginal speed increase, declare the variable outside the repeat loop:

set theFormat to {fontName:"Andale Mono"}

tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.5" to tell front workspace

repeat with eachCue in (cues whose q color is "red")

set text format of eachCue to theFormat

end repeat

end tell

Rich

[Millie]

Brilliant, thank you very much Rich. This now does exactly what I needed it to and has saved me a ton of time!

Thanks again!

Millie

[Paul]

You don't even need a loop for this, you can do it in a one line script

tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.5" to tell front workspace to set text format of cues whose q color is "red" to {fontName:"Andale Mono"}