Re: Calling a property by using a string

Subject: Re: Calling a property by using a string

From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>

Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:34:12 -0700

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On 2006-09-25, at 15:18:07, has wrote:

AS doesn't provide an associative array type as standard,

However folks can get by using System Events property list items:

tell application "System Events" to activate

tell application "System Events"

set p1 to make new property list item with properties {kind:string, name:"mlle", value:"Jones"}

set n1 to "ml"

set n2 to "le"

set n to n1 & n2

set val to value of (item 1 of (every property list item whose name is n))

end tell

tell application "System Events" to quit

tell me to activate

val

--> "Jones"

unfortunately,

as you can see from the above, it's implementation leaves something to be desired because if one runs the script multiple times,

every property list item

returns the accumulated sum of every property list item created.

Philip Aker

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