• Open Menu Close Menu
  • Apple
  • Shopping Bag
  • Apple
  • Mac
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Watch
  • TV
  • Music
  • Support
  • Search apple.com
  • Shopping Bag

Lists

Open Menu Close Menu
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Lists hosted on this site
  • Email the Postmaster
  • Tips for posting to public mailing lists
Re: Palm Desktop Script 101?
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Palm Desktop Script 101?


  • Subject: Re: Palm Desktop Script 101?
  • From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:39:37 -0700

On Tuesday, Apr 15, 2003, at 14:59 US/Pacific, Michael P. Wilson wrote:

2) I'm guessing that the export, when scripted will actually export to a file that I'd have to load back in and manage. Seems a bit convoluted. But the alternative is to build the vCard myself, which I REALLY don't want to do.

I think you've pretty much summed up the situation. There is no means to script Palm Desktop to generate vCard data, so you'd have to do it yourself. I actually wouldn't expect that to be too much work, but parsing vCard to go the other direction could be quite involved. I considered adding support for getting the vCard representation for an item to the next release, but I ran out of time, unfortunately.

By the way, I've completely rewritten the scripting support in Palm Desktop. No promise on when it will ship, though. It should be a big improvement overall, but one thing that may affect you is I removed the 'export' command. I did so partly for time reasons, but also because it gave you no control on exactly what it exported, so I decided scripters were probably better off just getting the properties they're interested in and generating tab-delimited text files themselves if that's what they wanted.

--
Chris Page - Software Wrangler - Palm, Inc.

An ASCII character walks into a bar. Bartender asks, "What'll you have?" ASCII character says, "Give me a double." Bartender asks, "Having a bad day?" ASCII character says, "Yeah, I have a parity error." Bartender says, "Hmmm. I thought you looked a bit off."
_______________________________________________
applescript-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
  • Follow-Ups:
    • Re: Palm Desktop Script 101?
      • From: "Michael P. Wilson" <email@hidden>
References: 
 >Re: Palm Desktop Script 101? (From: "Michael P. Wilson" <email@hidden>)

  • Prev by Date: Re: Strange goings-on
  • Next by Date: Re: Palm Desktop Script 101?
  • Previous by thread: Re: Palm Desktop Script 101?
  • Next by thread: Re: Palm Desktop Script 101?
  • Index(es):
    • Date
    • Thread