Re: MacScripter's Magazine #5
Re: MacScripter's Magazine #5
- Subject: Re: MacScripter's Magazine #5
- From: Bert Altenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 06:29:01 +0200
Arthur Knapp wrote:
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> Vittorio and I are happy to announce that the Spring 2001 Issue of
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> MacScripter's Magazine is available!
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This is a truely great issue. :)
:-) Thanks. Hope that the list members will read it and tell others to
read it too.
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The completeness of your coverage of working with date and time is
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just fantastic, and integrating that tutorial with a database
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tutorial is very clever.
All made possible by AppleScript.
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> Macscripter.net, a the great resource for applescripters:
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> http://macscripter.net/Magazine.html
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I have a query:
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On the page "Referring to an item", the statement
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set x to the weekday of the current date
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is seen to produce a 3-letter abbreviation for the weekday. You then
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state that using the coercion, "as string", will produce the full
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weekday name.
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On my system, (9.1/OS X), I only get the full weekday name. Does
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anyone know why this is?
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set testDate to current date
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weekday of testDate
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-- > Tuesday
I see the 3-letter abbreviation *only* if I use "display dialog". If I
don't use display dialog, the result window will show the full name.
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So it would seem that MacScripter team can work with 3-letter
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abbreviations, while I can't.
Like you, I can't use it with "set weekday of testDate to sun", so no
prerogatives.
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Is this a localization problem,
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a version problem, or something else?
I see this with both Dutch (yikes!) 9.04, as well as with International
8.5
No explanation, just some extra observations.
Bert