Re: birth date from Address Book
Re: birth date from Address Book
- Subject: Re: birth date from Address Book
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:03:01 +0000
- Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a11
At 11:35 pm -0800 11/3/03, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
Address Book OS 10.2 is too new to be documented yet. I just study the
dictionary and try things. 'properties' property is in the Dictionary, so I
tried it and saw a bunch of 'missing value' for properties with no value.
That looked a lot more useful than stumbling around setting variables to
non-existing properties, and then using the variable in a try block (I still
have to do that somewhere), and so it proved.
This list is where you'll find the most current information.
And here it is. It seems very long-winded to get properties like
that. If Address book sucks, as it does, then the last thing that's
needed is to make a meal of its shortcomings. The thing can be done
quite simply like this
tell app "Address Book"
set birthday to person "John Delacour"'s birth date
try
birthday
on error
set birthday to false
beep
return
end try
end tell
if birthday is not false then set d to "" & day of birthday
set m to month of birthday
set y to year of birthday
d & " " & m & ", " & y
--> "27 January, 1916"
JD
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