Applescript in OG6: Can no longer get graphics of a group
 

I can find no way to get graphics of a group in OG6.

Here's the code that works in OG5, with a group of three circles selected:

on run
tell application id "OGfl"
set sel to selection of front window
set g to item 1 of sel
display dialog class of g -- displays "OGGR"
set glist to graphics of g
end tell
end run

In OG5, glist is set to a list of the group's graphics:

{graphic id 40446 of canvas id 1 of document "graphics test.graffle" of application "OmniGraffle Professional 5", graphic id 40447 of canvas id 1 of document "graphics test.graffle" of application "OmniGraffle Professional 5", graphic id 40448 of canvas id 1 of document "graphics test.graffle" of application "OmniGraffle Professional 5"}

in OG6, the "set glist" line returns this error:

Can’t get every graphic of graphic id 40350 of canvas id 1 of document \"graphics test\"." number -1728 from every graphic of graphic id 40350 of canvas id 1 of document "graphics test"

And if I say the following (which also works in OG5):

set glist to (graphics of g) as list

I get, humorously, a one-item list containing a list reference - very meta:

{every graphic of graphic id 40350 of canvas id 1 of document "graphics test" of application "OmniGraffle"}

Note, however, that getting the graphics of a canvas works fine. I didn't test getting the graphics of a layer (though shared layers still return invalid graphic references)

I wish you would have beta tested before releasing. You should put OG5 back up on your site, and give anyone that buys the full version of OG6 a free license for OG5, at least until it's all of the bugs are worked out.

Yes, the OG 6 Applescript library still states that:

[CODE]The graphic class is used in the following ways:
element of canvas class
element of column class
[B]element of group class[/B]
element of layer class
element of row class
element of shared layer class
element of subgraph class
element of table class
element of table slice class[/CODE]

but in fact the implementation of [B].graphics[/B] for the [B]group[/B] class seems to be one of the things that have fallen through the net.

(Judging by the number of scripts that are breaking, there are probably a number of other such issues to be discovered and fixed.

Upgrading to Graffle Pro Ver 6 can't be recommended yet if you need to use scripts. Even unbroken scripts are running unusably slowly).

[QUOTE=RobTrew;127647]Even unbroken scripts are running unusably slowly[/QUOTE]

This remains true of the shipped 6.0, but has been fixed in test builds after 6.01 r196000, so the future is looking better, in terms of speed, at least.