Re: more scripting iCal
Re: more scripting iCal
- Subject: Re: more scripting iCal
- From: David Glass <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:24:04 -0700
On Oct 22, 2004, at 16:53, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
which is the 'summary' property. Unfortunately, you can't set or get
the
note ('description' property in event) - it's not scriptable for todos.
Another half-assed iCal AppleScript implementation.
I don't know if anybody has come up with a solution for this
limitation, but I arrived at this:
on fncReadCalendarFile(strUID, alsCurrentCalendar)
-- '-A 4' returns the four lines following the line that matched
set strScript to "grep -A 4 " & strUID & " " & (POSIX path of
alsCurrentCalendar)
set strMatchingText to do shell script strScript
set strDescription to paragraph -1 of strMatchingText
if strDescription contains "DESCRIPTION:" then
set strDescription to (characters 13 thru (length of strDescription) of
strDescription) as string
else
set strDescription to "-NONE-"
end if
return strDescription
end fncReadCalendarFile
Coming into this handler is the UID of a To Do, and the path to the
actual iCal file for the calendar (.ics file)
In my (currently brief) testing this works well, and is speedy, but I
don't have much in iCal, so no guesses as to how it will perform with a
well-populated calendar. I imagine it could be optimized some as
well.
--
David Glass - email@hidden
Gray Matter Computing
559-303-4915
Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist
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