Re: Cocerce Date
Re: Cocerce Date
- Subject: Re: Cocerce Date
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:00:19 -0700
If you have to do it within a tell block, you can also just write
tell me to set cdate to date ndate
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Paul Berkowitz
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From: Michael Tompsett <email@hidden>
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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:07:03 +0100
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To: <email@hidden>
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Cc: <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Cocerce Date
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I had a similar problem a while back and found out that the problem was
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because the line
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Set cdate to date ndate
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Was within the tell statement of an application (in this case quark)
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So it read
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Tell app quark
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Set ndate to contents of text field 3todate2 as string
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Set cdate to date ndate
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End tell
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When it should have read
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Tell app quark
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Set ndate to contents of text field 3todate2 as string
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End tell
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Set cdate to date ndate
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Basically, coercion doesn9t work between tell statements.
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Another good way is to set the date coercion as a subroutine which can then
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be called from within a tell statement. This is useful if you do not want to
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have to close a tell statement just to perform the coercion and then open
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the tell statement again. E.g
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Property cdate : {}
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On subdate(x)
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Set cdate to date x
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End subdate
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Tell app quark
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Set ndate to contents of text field 3todate2 as string
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Subdate(ndate) of me
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End tell
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Get in touch if you want any more help with it
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Mikeyt
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Paul wrote:
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> I want to take a date string from a text field and convert
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> it into a date.
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> The first line accepts the string into nDate set the nDate
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> to contents of text field "toDate" as string
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> The help says to coerse the string to a date as follows set
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> cDate to date nDate
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> But when run I get Apple script error
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> NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 3 (1)
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> What's wrong?
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> I am new to Applescript but hey you have to start sometime!
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> Thanks Paul Garfield
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