Re: get properties treating variable as literal
Re: get properties treating variable as literal
- Subject: Re: get properties treating variable as literal
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 01:51:18 +0200
At 4:17 PM -0700 10/4/06, Christopher Nebel wrote:
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"
Slightly off-topic since it uses a third-party addition, here how it
would go with XMLLib.osax:
set f to file ("" & (path to preferences folder) & "com.apple.dashboard.plist")
set p to PlistOpen f
PlistGetKeys p
-- {"layer-gadgets", "locale", "slash-mod", "tilde-mod", "widget-list"}
PlistGet p key "locale"
-- "en_US"
OMPBG4, XMLLib is 6+ times faster in this exercise (3.5 ms vs 24 ms.)
Emmanuel
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