🚀 go-pugleaf

Aha, you're right. Thanks.

Happens that I found a benefit from creating my own frame, so I've instead used:

myTempF = app.activeWindow.activeSpread.textFrames.add();
app.selection = myTempF.insertionPoints[0];
app.paste()

This allows me to now check that the parentStory of myTempF contains no pageItems. If it does not contain pageItems, then the clipboard was just text and I can proceed on my merry way with this particular script which requires text only on the clipboard -- I'm sure I could equally have tested the nature of the frontmost frame, too, but I doubt it would be much more efficient.

Writing that reminded me that I'd better check for an empty clipboard (I'm not sure how to force it to empty for testing -- I wonder if app.paste() pulls a run time error in that case).

Dave