Re: Scripting Palm Desktop --- syntax to modify Custom fields
Re: Scripting Palm Desktop --- syntax to modify Custom fields
- Subject: Re: Scripting Palm Desktop --- syntax to modify Custom fields
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 00:37:40 -0700
nigh on 2001.10.06 3:00 PM, John W Baxter at email@hidden wrote:
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At 9:45 +0000 10/6/2001, Jason W. Bruce wrote:
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> You can't use the word "text" to refer to the contents of a custom field in
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> the Palm Desktop, because "text" is an AppleScript keyword. Instead, you
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> have to use raw syntax to set the contents of a custom field. Be careful
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> not to recompile after you type in the raw syntax, because AppleScript will
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> translate the raw syntax to the Palm Desktop dictionary term "text" in
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> Script Editor, and will subsequently confuse it with the AppleScript keyword
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> "text."
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It's been ages (OK, 8+ years) since I had to resort to this, but the likely
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solution is to hack the aete in Palm Desktop to associate some other
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terminology with the event code that they currently associate "text" with.
Please read my message on the "Scripting Palm Desktop" topic. In the
development version of Palm Desktop I've fixed some ambiguous terms:
Class Property (old => new)
address info label => address label
phone info label => phone label
name info title => title
custom field info title => field title
custom field info text => field text
This will be in the next release. In the meantime, feel free to edit the
terminology resource to match this.
--
Chris Page
Mac OS Lead, Palm Desktop
Palm, Inc.
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