dereferencing
dereferencing
- Subject: dereferencing
- From: Steven Majewski <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:08:53 -0400
I suspect that this is an application specific problem, but I'll ask
anyway,
just in case I'm wrong:
A new version of an app has changed it's dictionary(*) so that what
were once
returned as values are now returned as references:
'field 1 of window 1 of application ... '
and I'm having trouble dereferencing these to get string values again.
(* "The AppleScript dictionary has been re-organised and clarified in
consultation with
Apple engineers, so as to be clearer and more consistent with current
standards." )
Is there any generic dereferencing syntax in Applescript ?
There's a whole chapter in the manual about reference forms, but I can't
find anything about dereferencing.
I've tried coercing to a string but I get an error.
I've tried doing an additional get or set on the reference and what I
get back
is always a reference.
I've tried 'value of' , but that's also an error.
Is there some Applescript idiom I'm missing here for the inverse of
'reference of' ,
or is this a bug in the app?
-- Steve Majewski
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