The thought just occurred to me -- though no time to experiment now -- that perhaps I could build a script within the script, by creating and massaging a string which would ultimately become a script which could then be run via do script, assuming I could return the built record. Somewhat on the model of this snippet form the InDesign sample script "FindChangeByList.applescript":
---
set myScript to "tell application \"Adobe InDesign CS3\"" & return & "set properties of find text preferences to " & myFindPreferences & return
set myScript to myScript & "set properties of change text preferences to " & myChangePreferences & return
set myScript to myScript & "set properties of find change text options to " & myFindChangeOptions & return
set myScript to myScript & "end tell" & return
do script myScript language applescript language
---
A direct method still sounds appealing, though.
Rick Gordon
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On 6/22/07 at 5:20 PM -0700, Rick Gordon wrote in a message entitled
"OSAX to Tokenize Record Field Names from List Items ???":
>How might one go about the process of parsing a list, for instance:
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>{"fSource", "PicName", "fObjStyle", "[Basic Graphics Frame]", "fWidth", "12p6", "fHeight", "9p3"}
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>... and dynamically build a record, such as:
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>{fSource:"PicName", fObjStyle:"[Basic Graphics Frame]", fWidth:"12p6", fHeight:"9p3"}
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>... without having those field names predefined.
>
>In other words, I would like to dynamically tokenize each odd-indexed filed in the list and pair it with the following even-indexed value. Is this possible with some sort of OSAX?
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