Re: Newbie question about iCal and Applescript
Re: Newbie question about iCal and Applescript
- Subject: Re: Newbie question about iCal and Applescript
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 02:01:22 -0800
On 3/27/03 1:08 AM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Thanks for the useful responses to my question about saving property values.
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I'm on OSX BTW.
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I started on Applescript because I wanted to use iCal but its reminders
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don't work if the machine is sleeping or powered off at the time of the
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reminder. So I looked at writing a background script which talked to iCal
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to get the calendar info. Only iCal doesn't seem to expose the reminder
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info and also calendars had a color attribute but that didn't work when I
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tried to access it in a script. Have I missed something here? Or is
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Apple's scripting support of variable quality?
You got it right.
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In the end I manually parsed the .ICS files as a learning exercise.
Good for you! I noticed that the 'description' property of a calendar had
reminder info and all, (if you count "<<< [.] <CALDisplayAlarm: 0x1b448b0>
privid:(null) " as info, but it looked like a tremendous effort to parse.
It's also read only.
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Paul Berkowitz
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