applescript copy paste between textedit and 3rd party application not working - applescript

Question

I have searched all over this site and cannot find an answer to why this code isn't doing what I need it to do. I have a textedit doc with a list of numbers. I want to copy 1 number at a time paste that number into a 3rd party application at a specific place in url, and then hit some buttons in the ui of that application. I need this process to repeat for each individual number in the textedit document.
Here is what I came up with after researching applescript.
tell application "TextEdit" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "TextEdit"
key code 124 using {shift down, command down}
keystroke "c" using command down
key code 125
end tell
end tell
delay 1.0
tell application "import.io" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "import.io"
keystroke tab
keystroke tab
key code 124
key code 123
key code 123
key code 123
key code 123
key code 123
key code 123
key code 123
key code 123
key code 123
key code 123
key code 123
key code 123
key code 123
key code 123
key code 51
keystroke "v" using command down
keystroke tab
key code 76
end tell
end tell
-- Make a selection from the popupbutton.
delay 2.231426
set timeoutSeconds to 10.0
set uiScript to "click pop up button 1 of window \"Save\" of application process \"import.io\""
my doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds)
return input
end run
on doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds)
set endDate to (current date) + timeoutSeconds
repeat
try
run script "tell application \"System Events\"
" & uiScript & "
end tell"
exit repeat
on error errorMessage
if ((current date) > endDate) then
error "Can not " & uiScript
end if
end try
end repeat
end doWithTimeout
-- Click the “<fill in title>” checkbox.
delay 1.496275
set timeoutSeconds to 10.0
set uiScript to "click checkbox 1 of window \"Save\" of application process \"import.io\""
my doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds)
return input
-- Type “Data” into the text field.
delay 7.290406
set timeoutSeconds to 10.0
set uiScript to "click text field 1 of group 17 of list 1 of scroll area 1 of scroll area 1 of browser 1 of splitter group 1 of splitter group 1 of group 2 of window \"Save\" of application process \"import.io\""
keystroke "Data"
keystroke "."
tell application "System Events" to tell process "import.io"
keystroke "v" using command down
end tell
my doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds)
return input
-- Click the “Save” button.
delay 1.475013
set timeoutSeconds to 10.0
set uiScript to "click UI Element \"Save\" of window \"Save\" of application process \"import.io\""
my doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds)
return input
my textedit document is formatted like this:
50
100
150
200
etc
When I run the script this is what it does to my textedit document:
50
50
100
150
200
etc
Any idea what is going on here? I can't make heads or tails of it.

Answer 1

Looking for result in your TextEdit file, first you must start to simplify the textEdit copy part. I assumed that the TextEdit document is already open.
The script bellow provides simplification for copy part :
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
set myNumbers to every paragraph of front document
end tell
repeat with aNumber in myNumbers -- loop through each number
set the clipboard to aNumber
-- insert here the paste instructions in your third party application
end repeat
You must insert the instruction about the paste in the loop, after the 'set clipboard...' instruction which fills the clipboard with a number.
I can't help you for the paste part, because I don't know your third party application, however, your program calling other scripts in doWithTimeout routine does not seems to be very clean and efficient.
If this third party application is not scriptable, at least you may have to go via GUI scripting or java (if java based application).
For instance, instead of doing all the key arrows to move to correct input cell, try to address that cell directly by its GUI properties.
Same for the checkbox, you can also use GUI click function.
The disadvantage of GUI scripting is that application interface must not changed. But this is already the case in your script.