If I have 4 variables with 3 possible values each...
set updateImages to -- could be {yes, no, ask}
set reflowText to -- could be {yes, no, ask}
set remapFonts to -- could be {yes, no, ask}
set docPrefs to -- could be {yes, no, ask}
What is the easiest, or is there an easy way to split this into if
statements?
I started trying to write this out... the long way it becomes alot
of code.. Is that the only way?
No, but an appropriate solution will depend on what you need to do.
Do all 81 possible permutations result in a unique action? If so,
then then you're kind of stuck for it. However, if the four actions
are all independent, then you really only need four "if" statements.
[Proceeding assuming they are independent, so this may be completely
irrelevant...]
A good objection to raise is that each step may take a while, and if
some of the variables are "ask", then you'd like to get all the
asking out of the way immediately, so the user won't have to keep
checking in every few minutes to see if it's asking another
question. There's a fairly simple solution to this, however:
if updateImages is ask then
set b to button returned of (display dialog "Update the images?"
buttons {"No", "Cancel", "Yes")
if b is "Yes"
set updateImages to yes
else
set updateImages to no
end if
end if
(similarly for reflowText, etc.)
if updateImages is yes then
-- your code here
end
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
