Re: get properties treating variable as literal
Re: get properties treating variable as literal
- Subject: Re: get properties treating variable as literal
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:17:24 -0700
On Oct 4, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Jaime Magiera wrote:
On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
On Oct 4, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Jaime Magiera wrote:
You omitted the context about exactly what currentPreferencesArray
and uniqueKey are, but I'm guessing from your question that
they're a record and a string, respectively. Record keys are not
strings and cannot be put into variables. Strings are not record
keys, and cannot be used to access record values. [1] Assuming my
guess was correct, the solution to your problem will vary
depending on where currentPreferencesArray is coming from and how
much control you have over it.
- currentPreferencesArray is an array of preferences from PLIST
Suite (in other words, an array of arrays of records)
{{|displayName|:"black", |hostName|:"not applicable",
protocol:"Local Folder", |baseURL|:"http://fakeurl.com";, |
remotePath|:"not applicable", |userName|:"not applicable", |
uniqueServerID|:99.763908842249, |memberName|:"not applicable"}, {|
displayName|:"yellow", |hostName|:"not applicable", protocol:"Local
Folder", |baseURL|:"http://anotherfakeurl.com";, |remotePath|:"not
applicable", |userName|:"not applicable", |uniqueServerID|:
109.45973, |memberName|:"not applicable"} }
-- I'm trying to create a general method that will, given an array
of plist preferences and a uniqueKey, determine if any new
preference objects conflict with old ones. In the case above,
uniqueServerID would be the unique key. I previously hard coded the
method for the objects above. However, I'd like the flexibility of a
general method.
Does that help paint the picture? Thanks everyone.
Do you mean System Events' Property List Suite? If so, then you asked
it for the wrong thing. People tend to ask for "value of ...", get a
record, and then forget that there's an object model below that, too.
For example, if you wanted to get all of the keys as strings, you
could say something like this:
tell application "System Events"
set f to file "com.apple.dashboard.plist" of the preferences folder
set p to property list file (path of f)
get name of every property list item of p
end tell
--> {"other-gadgets", "locale", "tilde-mod", "widget-list", "layer-
gadgets", "slash-mod"}
Now that you have a list of strings, you can ask for individual values
by their key name, such as...
value of property list item "locale" of p
--> "en_US"
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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