Re: Events in iCal - how do you do recurrence?
Re: Events in iCal - how do you do recurrence?
- Subject: Re: Events in iCal - how do you do recurrence?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:41:24 -0800
On 3/2/05 6:55 AM, "Martin Orpen" <email@hidden> wrote:
> on 2/3/05 2:36 am, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
>
>> It's a stupid bug that the recurrence string which iCal returns begins with
>> that colon ":". When you _set_ the recurrence, just remove that colon first
>> and it will work. I.e.
>>
>> if theRecurrence starts with ":" then set theRecurrence to text 2 thru
>> -1 of theRecurrence
>> set recurrence of theEvent to theRecurrence
>
> I don't know how you cope with working with iCal - I can't believe how buggy
> it is...
You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait until you discover the bugs in start times
and end times of allday events. When that time comes, and you'd like my
handlers for AdjustForGMT, give a holler. They took a lot more figuring out
than this recurrence bug. My main interest in iCal is to export stuff out of
there and into Entourage, which is a lot better behaved! (But also vice
versa, for the iSync functionality of iCal.)
I have reported all these bugs (there are yet others to do with color,
missing scriptability of todo notes and alarms, etc. etc.) and my hope is
that they will be fixed for Tiger. I did the same thing with the
almost-as-buggy Jaguar Address Book (to be fair, not quite as buggy), and
they all got fixed for Panther. Address Book Panther is now actually almost
a model scriptable app, as far as Cocoa apps go. So there's hope...
>
> Together with the odd behaviour of "eppc://" - which is so badly behaved
> that it is impossible to test reliably using multiple accounts on a single
> Mac - I ended up wasting an hour on recurrence before giving up and posting
> to the list :-(
An hour? It took me a lot more than that (days) o get to grips with the
allday event bugs. I was familiar with iCal recurrence strings from
Entourage, so I knew what to look for - that colon looked awfully
suspicious.
>
> It was great to be able to go to bed, get up and find the answer in my inbox
> - cheers.
Pleasure... Thanks for writing back.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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