On 1/15/07 9:13 PM, "Jeff Brown" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I'm planning on writing contact software (in either
> Applescript or XCode) that will need to use a
> calendar. iCal is the obvious choice since it is
> Applescript(able). But my software will need to know
> when iCal deletes, creates or changes a calendar
> event, calendar or To Do.
> Does anyone know how I can access the messages sent by
> these iCal events and capture them with my software OR
> who I should ask to find out.
You will need to keep a record of the date and time (current date) each time
you access iCal, retain it as lastSync, and the next time get
every event of calendar i whose modification date > lastSync
cycling through every calendar i from 1 to (count calendars). That will give
you every new and modified event since the last sync. What it won't give you
is which events have been deleted. Probably the best way to do that is to
keep a record of the uid property of every event, and then get the uid of
every event the next time and see which have disappeared. It's absurdly slow
to do that by standard AppleScript - you will probably want to 'do shell
script' using Perl or Python to do the comparison.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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