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Re: get properties treating variable as literal
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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 21:18:14 -0700

On Oct 4, 2006, at 4:51 PM, Emmanuel wrote:

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...

Except for when it completely fails because a .plist file isn't necessarily XML.



--Chris Nebel AppleScript Engineering

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