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Re: International number formats
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Re: International number formats


  • Subject: Re: International number formats
  • From: Bernardo Hoehl <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:55:19 -0300

Ok folks,  I dettected that my script will fail to work properly...

But how do I move on forward to modify the settings on: > system preferences > international > formats?

Thanks!

Bernardo

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On 25 Feb, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Brennan wrote:

On 25/2/05 at 09:17, Bernardo Hoehl <email@hidden> wrote:

Hi Brennan,


I face the same questions here.

We, in Brazil use commas for decimals and periods for thousants too.

And most of my maths apps tend to result in error at the first time run
and require my attention.


I looked up system preferences dictionary, and there isn't much info
there.

I was wondering if there is a lower level system access I could use to
change the number formats in system preference's international pane.

One work around would be dettecting the settings > alerting the user >
changing the formats to what I need.

But how?

Well I suppose something like this

try

  "0.0" as number

on error msg number n

  if n is -1700 then

    .. non 'English' settings, do something

  end if

end try


Is there an accepted/preferred/reliable method for tweaking system preferences with AppleScript? I assume it requires messing with plists, because the "system preferences" dictionary doesn't have a full object model.

The ideal solution would be for Applescript to offer something like

using decimal seperator "."

  -- blah blah blah

end using decimal seperator

I suppose it's worth posting an enhancement request for this.

Brennan


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