"Bruce Robertson" wrote:
"Hamish" wrote:
>> tell application "System Events"
>> -- make new plist item
>> set plist to make new property list item with data "<?xml version=
>> \"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC \"-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN\"
>> \"http:// www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd\">
>> <plist version=\"1.0\">
>> <dict>
>> <key>keyname</key>
>> <integer>8</integer>
>> <key>creation</key>
>> <string>2007:06:12 20:13:52</string>
>> <key>happy</key>
>> <false/>
>> </dict>
>> </plist>
>> "
> Since no file was defined, "where" is this property list item? If it is
> simply an applescript variable why do we need to delete it?
>
> Also what is «class seld» ? It does not appear to be a writable property.
>
> set pl to plist as record
> pl
> --> {«class form»:named, «class want»:property list item, «class
> seld»:"untitled 7", from:application "System Events"}
Bruce,
you're looking at results that are turned into a record, so you're making a
bit of smoke for yourself.
If you were to run the code above [as shown here, not with the 'delete'
lines] twice in a fresh Smile terminal, then you'd have two Plist objects in
memory. The results would be:
-- property list item "untitled" of application "System Events"
-- property list item "untitled 2" of application "System Events"
If you want to keep multiple objects in memory like that, you can name your
Plists.
tell application "System Events" to...
set the name of property list item 1 to "hello" -- <<class seld>> here
its property list item 1
-- property list item "hello" of application "System Events"
set the name of property list item 2 to "dolly"
-- property list item "dolly" of application "System Events"
You can then refer to them by name:
tell application "System Events" to...
tell property list item "hello" to its properties
-- {kind:record, name:"hello", class:property list item,
value:{happy:false, creation:"2007:06:12 20:13:52", keyname:8}}
tell property list item "dolly" to its properties
-- {kind:record, name:"dolly", class:property list item,
value:{happy:true, creation:"2007:06:12 20:13:52", keyname:12}}
HTH.
--
Gary
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