Re: interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as strings)
Re: interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as strings)
- Subject: Re: interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as strings)
- From: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 13:22:11 -0500
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Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 14:10:39 -0800
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From: Chris Nebel <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as
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strings)
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has wrote:
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> try this:
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> {{a:1}} as string
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This is a known bug in AppleScript
??? bug ???
Why are you calling my Christmas gift a bug... ;-)
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... -- what you're seeing is the raw contents
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of an Apple Event Manager record.
Right. Up until now, I was aware of two ways to get at this information,
either through the read/write commands, (which are often unreliable), or
with Eric Grant's Sigma's Coercions scripting addition.
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... I think this "works" on pretty much all
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versions of AppleScript, but I'm sure we'll break it eventually, so don't get
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too attached to it.
OK, has, we need a new plan: Don't mention things like this in front
of Chris Nebel. This is how we lost the "item 0" thing in lists...
;-)
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