Re: Set Selection with a list of items
Re: Set Selection with a list of items
- Subject: Re: Set Selection with a list of items
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 11:11:51 -0700
On 10/6/01 11:05 AM, Irwin Poche <email@hidden> wrote:
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Now I know why I was stumped. What never dawned on me was that my single
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item command had "items" in it but the list form had neither "items" nor
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"file" in it.
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I thought that adding "item" to the assign statement would do it. Either
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"item" or "file" attempts to resolve at compile time...
Um, no. They don't.
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set selectionItems to {,
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{item "Note Pad File", item "Scrapbook File"}, ,
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"Main Identity", ,
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"Hosts"}
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It looks like I have no choice but to use a loop to either set up the an
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appropriate list -or- to set each item individually. Do you agree ?
I don't know. I'm not sure what you're trying to do or how you're trying
to do it, other than select a number of icons in a folder.
--Michelle
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