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Re: iCal Mystery -- description of calendar when description is missing value
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Re: iCal Mystery -- description of calendar when description is missing value


  • Subject: Re: iCal Mystery -- description of calendar when description is missing value
  • From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:04:05 -0700

Title: Re: iCal Mystery -- description of calendar when descripti
Paul;

I disagree with your assessment. If I use the code...

tell application "iCal"
tell calendar "CDG"
             {
name, title, description}
     
end tell
end tell
--> {"CDG", "CDG", "CDMA Development Group"}


The name and title return the same thing, which is the short name shown in the iCal calendar window.

The description returns the text that is shown in smaller type in the "Info" window when you have a calendar selected, rather than an individual event.

In the iCal dictionary (on 10.4.4) the description field is listed and it says "This is the calendar description" (which isn't terribly helpful, but it appears to be a legitimate field).

- David Crowe


At 12:34 AM -0800 2/8/06, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
Actually, 'description' property of a calendar has nothing to do with the
name. Back in Panther it would give you the immense file content of the
calendar - the whole thing, every event included in iCal format, if I
remember correctly (and so rather useless). Calendars are stored differently
in Tiger, so you get nothing. Supposing you actually wanted  that complete
file content, that would be  a bug. probably it should just be removed from
the dictionary.

To get the name of the calendar, ask for 'name', not 'description'. Or
'title', which is what it was called on Panther - that still works in Tiger
though not in the dictionary.
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