HELP! - Set Cue Target with Script

[Benjamin Farrar]

Hello,

I am trying to set a Cue Target with AppleScript. Below is what I have, but it is not working and is throwing an error:

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tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.4" to tell front workspace

set theResponse to display dialog "Goto Subtitle #" default answer "" with icon note buttons {"Cancel", "Continue"} default button "Continue"

--> {button returned:"Continue", text returned:"1"}

set cue target of cue "ST1" to text returned of theResponse

end tell

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error "QLab got an error: Can’t make \"5\" into type cue." number -1700 from "5" to cue

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I am not sure what I am missing, any help is much appreciated. 

Benjamin Farrar

[Sam Kusnetz]

Hi Benjamin

You’re running into a semantic issue… if “5” is the cue number of the cue you want to target, we humans say “cue 5” and know that it MEANS the cue which has the number “5”. But machines cannot immediately discern what you want here… “is Benjamin talking about the cue which has cue number 5, or is he talking about the cue number itself?”

To address this, change this line:

set cue target of cue "ST1" to text returned of theResponse

to this:

set cue target of cue "ST1" to cue (text returned of theResponse)

Best

Sam

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