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From: John Darnell
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:44

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Hello fellow scripters!

I have this code:

--CurrentFrame is a text frame
set mycontents to contents of CurrentFrame
display dialog mycontents as string

When the display dialog command attempts to execute, I receive the following message:

Can't make <<class txtf>> id 148 of <<class page>> of <<class sprd>> of document XXX of application InDesign into a string.

According to the documentation on InDesign scripting the "contents" of a text frame is "a string or placeholder text." Why can't it be coerced into a string?
What do I need to do to make this happen?
If I cannot get the text out of a text frame by using "contents of <>" what should I use?

TIA!

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