Re: vdate
Re: vdate
- Subject: Re: vdate
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:21:55 -0800
On Monday, November 5, 2001, at 08:56 AM, Robert Poland wrote:
The following crashes on my wifes 6100, OS 8.1. I tried Applescript
1.1.3.
set DateString to "" & (vDate)'s month & " " & (vDate)'s day & ", " &
(vDate)'s year -- month, day, year
Error says it cannot make month "November into a string".
Yep. The month of an AppleScript date object isn't really a string,
it's an enumeration, and AppleScript didn't support coercing
enumerations to strings prior to 1.4. Since you're using 1.1.3, you'll
have to do it the hard way, like this:
if (vDate)'s month is January then
set m to "January"
else if (vDate)'s month is February then
set m to "February"
(etc.)
Alternatively, you could ask for "date string of vDate" and then trim
off the day of the week, or you could get one of several more flexible
date formatting additions.
I assume that "vdate" is calling an osax, but I can't seem to figure
out which one. I searched the Applescript sites and found nothing.
More likely, it's just a variable. Look for a line that says "set vDate
to ...".
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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