Re: Retrieving properties
Re: Retrieving properties
- Subject: Re: Retrieving properties
- From: Larry Nix <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:34:42 -0400
- Organization: AIS Computers
The property's just a flag for a a mounted volume right?
tag a little handler or test that simply checks for the presence of the mtd
volume and clips over to a timer loop to repeat the check at intervals
until the
mtd volume is available for the script in question - no timeout, just a patient
agent.
Arthur J Knapp wrote:
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> From: "Goodman, Steve" <email@hidden>
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> Subject: RE: Retrieving properties
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> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 08:34:27 -0500
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>> So is the mounting script a stay-open script application that
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>> is running?
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> yes it is and what you have given me looks great....however it has steered
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> me to this:
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> Is it then possible to retrieve the property without the handler in the stay
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> open app? In very quick testing it seems to work fine....just curious if
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> there is something I'm missing.
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> -- Script "Server Mounting"
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> property some_value : true
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> -- some other Script
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> tell application "Server Mounting"
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> if some_value of it = true then
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>
It does work fine. :)
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>
I tend to think in terms of script applications providing "public"
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handlers for other scripts to call. It means that you can actually
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rewrite the internal structure of the script app without having
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to modify scripts that depend on it, (so long as the handler names
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don't change).
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It's just a question of style, maintainence, etc.
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Incidentally, my earlier posting was needlessly wordy, this
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is a little better:
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property some_value : true
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on IsSomeValue()
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return some_value -- it's already a boolean
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end
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Arthur J. Knapp
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http://www.stellarvisions.com
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mailto:email@hidden
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Hey, check out:
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<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/InterproCom/AppleScriptScripters
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/AppleScriptLangGuide/>
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