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Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 188

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Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 188

Subject: Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 188
From: Adam Bell <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:13:27 -0300

I don't have time to alter this to your specific need, but this is how I do it: First, number the list of choices then after the choices are made, parse out the number:

set theFolder to choose folder

set theMenu to {}

set n to 1

tell application "Finder"

set folderItems to (items of theFolder)

repeat with theItem in folderItems

set theMenu to theMenu & (my leadingZeros(n) & " - " & name of theItem)

set n to n + 1

end repeat

end tell

set theSelection to (characters 1 thru 3 of item 1 of (choose from list theMenu) as string) as integer

tell application "Finder"

set thePath to POSIX path of (item theSelection of folderItems as string)

end tell

display dialog "the path of your selected file is " & thePath

on leadingZeros(n)

if n > 99 then

return n as string

else if n > 9 then

return "0" & n

else

return "00" & n

end if

end leadingZeros

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1. Selecting From A List (Jim Brandt)

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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:47:17 -0500
From: Jim Brandt <email@hidden>
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Subject: Selecting From A List
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I have a need to select multiple items from a list (sometimes lists
of hundreds of items).

After getting the selection, I need the index into the list of each
item selected.
Is there an easy way to do this?

An example:

set ListOfSelections to {"String 1", "String 2", "String 3", ...,
"String n"}

set r to choose from list ListOfSelections with prompt "Pick one or
more:" with multiple selections allowed

Assuming I select "String 2", "String 3" and "String n", r contains a
list {"String 2", "String 3", "String n"}

I need to know that the first string of the selection is item 2 of
the original list,
the second string of the selection is item 3 of the original list and
the third
string of the selection is item n of the original list. Is there a
way to return the
item number of the original list instead of the selections
themselves, or do I
now need to search the original list to pick out the positions?

TIA,

Jim Brandt
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