Re: How to determine whether an event has an alarm
Re: How to determine whether an event has an alarm
- Subject: Re: How to determine whether an event has an alarm
- From: Max Bonilla <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:12:43 -0400
- Thread-topic: How to determine whether an event has an alarm
Hi Gary,
Thanks a lot!
Max
> From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:30:58 -0400
> To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: How to determine whether an event has an alarm
>
> "Max Bonilla" wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to determine, through AS, whether an event in iCal has an
>> alarm
>> set?
>>
>> When retrieve the properties of an event I get this: {
>> class:event,
>> uid:"BFC0A395-549B-4318-8E68-4C6C81DC567B",
>> location:missing value,
>> url:missing value,
>> sequence:0,
>> recurrence:"",
>> excluded dates:{},
>> allday event:false,
>> start date:date "Friday, February 10, 2006 12:00:00 PM",
>> summary:"Lunch with Bob",
>> stamp date:date "Friday, July 20, 2007 1:08:41 PM",
>> end date:date "Friday, February 10, 2006 1:00:00 PM",
>> description:"##@@B@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>> ",
>> status:none
>> }
>>
>> Even if there is an alarm, there is not record showing it. Is there a way to
>> figure this out?
>
> If you browse the iCal dictionary in Script Editor, you will note that
> alarms are not properties of events, they are elements of events. That's
> what the [E] symbol in Script Editor's dictionary viewer is telling you.
> Click on 'iCal' in the left-hand pane of suites, then scroll down to the
> 'event' class (middle pane) to see the elements (right-hand pane).
>
> This will lead you to discover the various alarm classes and their
> properties.
>
>
> So, to discover the existence of alarms of various kinds...
>
>
> set e_ to item 1 of events of calendar 1 -- or some other event reference
>
> -- ELEMENTS OF AN iCal 'event'
> tell e_ to copy its attendees to attendees_
> tell e_ to copy its display alarms to alarmsDisplay_
> tell e_ to copy its mail alarms to alarmsMail_
> tell e_ to copy its open file alarms to alarmsOpenFile_
> tell e_ to copy its sound alarms to alarmsSound_
> {attendees_, alarmsDisplay_, alarmsMail_, alarmsOpenFile_, alarmsSound_}
> --> {{}, {display alarm 1 of event 1 of calendar 1}, {}, {}, {}}
>
>
> Then you can get 'trigger interval' and 'trigger date' (which does not
> properly return missing value or any other usable value if it is empty, so
> you'll have to trap for that returned value and handle as needed.)
>
>
> tell item 1 of item 2 of elems_ to its trigger interval
> --> 15
>
>
> -- bug?
> tell item 1 of item 2 of elems_ to (its trigger date)
> --> /null result/
> tell item 1 of item 2 of elems_ to copy its trigger date to triggerDate_
> --> /null result/
>
>
> -- workaround?
> try
> tell item 1 of item 2 of elems_ to copy its trigger date to triggerDate_
> -- just some tests, to force a 'variable not defined' error
> triggerDate_ is in {missing value, "", {}}
> on error
> copy "(no trigger date)" to triggerDate_
> end try
>
> --
> Gary
>
>
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