>What you want is dynamic code evaluation, a.k.a. second-level
>evaluation, which in other languages tends to be embodied by a
>function named "eval". In AppleScript the only way I know of to do
>this is to call "run script" on a string whose value is the code you
>want to run; unfortunately, such a dynamic script object has no access
>to the variables and properties of the surrounding code, so that won't
>help your particular problem.
>
> property Average_Test : "Please Don't Work"
> property Good_Test : "Shouldn't Work"
> property Great_Test : "This worked"
>
> set this to "Great"
> set test to "_Test"
>
> set thistest to (this & test)
>
> run script ("my " & thistest)
Some time ago afther a long discussion on accessing records properties by
variable name was condensed in the following code:
to extract_usrf(theRecord, fieldName)
run script "on run{r}
return |" & fieldName & "| of r
end" with parameters {theRecord}
end extract_usrf
Removing the pipes it is possible, to use it to access properties on a
script object like that:
property Average_Test : "Please Don't Work"
property Good_Test : "Shouldn't Work"
property Great_Test : "This worked"
set this to "Great"
set test to "_Test"
set thistest to (this & test)
extract_usrf(me, thistest)
to extract_usrf(theRecord, fieldName)
run script "on run{r}
return " & fieldName & " of r
end" with parameters {theRecord}
end extract_usrf
nino
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