Re: Reco Label Stringer
Re: Reco Label Stringer
- Subject: Re: Reco Label Stringer
- From: David Simerly <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:35:01 -0700
- Url: http://www.digital-native.com
on 4/24/02 11:04 PM, Andy Wylie at email@hidden wrote:
>
set listA to {frog:"froggie", dog:"fido", cat:"kitty", |cane toad|:"dairy
on 4/25/02 1:59 AM, Mr Tea at email@hidden wrote:
>
I didn't quite get why 'cane toad' had those neither-forward-nor-back
>
slashes around it (what the heck are they called, anyway?).
You need the vertical bars when you want to use AppleScript keywords as a
custom label or variable. For instance, try compiling the following script
fragment which contains both application and language keywords, and you9ll
see compile errors:
set list to {script:"Search & Replace",properties:{on
run:"beginProcess()", on quit:"end process"}, script:"Yahoo!
Connect",properties:{on run:"sendURL()", on quit:"closeBrowser()"}}
But place vertical bars (aka "pipes" in the unix world), around all the
keywords and the same script fragment compiles with no complaints:
set |list| to {{|script|:"Search & Replace", |properties|:{|on
run|:"beginProcess()", |on quit|:"end process"}}, {|script|:"Yahoo!
Connect", |properties|:{|on run|:"sendURL()", |on quit|:"closeBrowser()"}}}
return "Script \"" & |script| of item 2 of |list| & "\" performs the \""
& |on run| of |properties| of item 2 of |list| & "\" handler when the script
launches."
--> Script "Yahoo! Connect" performs the "sendURL()" handler when the
script launches.
So in Andy's original example, the pipes around "cane toad" were necessary
because because AS doesn't normally allow spaces to be used in variable or
label names. HTH.
DS
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