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On Oct 9, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Michelle Steiner wrote:

On Oct 9, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Christopher Nebel wrote:

This certainly works (there are variants, but they boil down to the same thing), but realize that it's often not necessary. For instance, if you wanted to set the current printer to the one selected from the list, the printer name would be sufficient, and actually superior to the index:

tell application "Printer Setup Utility"
set myList to name of every printer
tell me
choose from list myList
end tell
set newPrinterName to item 1 of the result
set current printer to printer newPrinterName
end tell

I was going on the assumption that he needed the number for some reason.

Well, yes, but I've seen a lot of people ask for code based on invalid assumptions. This way, you learn how to do something that will probably be useful eventually, and you learn why it might be best to not use it right now.

Question about your code. Why not this:

set current printer to printer (get item 1 of the result)

References:
	>Getting the row number of an item in a list (From: Peter Baxter <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Getting the row number of an item in a list (From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Getting the row number of an item in a list (From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Getting the row number of an item in a list (From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>)