Re: iCal & AppleScript
Re: iCal & AppleScript
- Subject: Re: iCal & AppleScript
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:25:55 -0700
On 9/9/03 4:57 PM, "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Sep 8, 2003, at 8:36 PM, Monee C. Kidd wrote:
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> How scriptable is iCal? I'd like to write a script to have the
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> computer speak the current day's appointments and To do items. Can
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> someone point me in the right direction with this task?
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iCal is quite scriptable, but what you want to do is still harder than
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it ought to be. Actually, it's all pretty simple except for the
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problem of recurring events. Because of how iCal represents them via
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scripting, you have to do a lot of work to figure out exactly what
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events occur on a particular day (or, more generally, between two
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points in time). You can look at Scott Tooker's "Today's Schedule"
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Konfabulator widget <http://www.widgetgallery.com/dl.php?widget=25887>
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for a working example.
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And you can't script alarms at all. That's a very big lack.
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Paul Berkowitz
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