Re: dereferencing
Re: dereferencing
- Subject: Re: dereferencing
- From: Steven Majewski <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:39:14 -0400
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 04:20 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 9/2/03 12:08 PM, "Steven Majewski" <email@hidden> wrote:
Is there any generic dereferencing syntax in Applescript ?
'contents of', or usually (not always) set a variable to the reference
which
evaluates it to its value, or use the explicitly 'get' with parentheses
contents of (field 1 of window 1 of application ... )
--should work
set aVariable to (field 1 of window 1 of application ... )
-- [may or may not work: may still be the reference]
get field 1 of (get window 1) of application ...
-- [may or may not work: may still be the reference]
Thanks, Paul.
I found 'contents of' in the manual shortly after I sent the first
message,
but it didn't work either.
I had tried some variations of set & get with the returned reference.
However, I found that I *can* get at the value using the literal
statement:
'get field 1 as text'
within a 'tell media item 1 of window 1 of application...' block.
rather than trying to dereference the reference.
It looks like it's an application bug, but there may be a way around it
as long
as I avoid catching references.
-- Steve Majewski
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