Re:How to get Palm Desktop (v 2.6, OS9) to create new event?
Re:How to get Palm Desktop (v 2.6, OS9) to create new event?
- Subject: Re:How to get Palm Desktop (v 2.6, OS9) to create new event?
- From: Brennan <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:03:58 +0100
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Charles Arthur <email@hidden> wrote:
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For anyone who's not managed to solve this, the following works:
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tell application "Palm Desktop"
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create new event with {title:"test event", date:"11/11/02", start
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time:"0930", duration:30}
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end tell
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(I was telling it to make... with property {...} which clearly upset it.)
Thanks for the tip.
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Maybe once I generate a real script I'll put it on the web or submit it
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somewhere. It's weird that nobody else has felt this urge (to be able to
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script new events in Palm from some other app). Maybe they all just buy
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Entourage.
I can assure you that many people have tried to script Palm Desktop and most appear to have given up in disgust. I sent my wishlist item into Palm (and you should do the same) asking for scripting support to be improved/updated, but I imagine it's low priority for those at Palm HR.
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Searches on Google (looking for Palm + Applescript and for Claris +
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Applescript) turns up nada. Can it really be the case that nobody has tried
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to do this? Or is it a Known Bug?
There are so many bugs and design flaws in Palm Desktop's Applescript implementation that it's almost impossible to isolate them. I've discovered that some scripts only work sometimes. The object model is so bound to the GUI that you can't create new objects without a parade of windows and palettes on screen. Do they think Applescript is just another Quickeys or what?
So many little irritating things, right down to including in the name of the application which appears as a dud character in my email app. Share scripts? Why would you want to do that? Horrible, horrible. Palm should be ashamed.
Brennan
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