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How Can I Access Properties of Script Applications?
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How Can I Access Properties of Script Applications?


  • Subject: How Can I Access Properties of Script Applications?
  • From: "S. J. Cunningham" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 06:34:13 -0400

I have a script application, call it "ThePropertyManager" viz:

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property sampleProperty : ""

on setProperty(newValue)
	set oldValue to sampleProperty
	set sampleProperty to newValue
	return {oldValue, sampleProperty}
end setProperty

on run
	set sampleProperty to "x"
end run
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When it is running I can access it's handlers from another script but not it's properties.

set thePropertyManager to (hfs path to ThePropertyManager.app)

tell application thePropertyManager to setProperty("z")  --> {"x","z"}
get sampleProperty of application thePropertyManager --> Error:"ThePropertyManager got an error: Can’t get sampleProperty."

It seems odd that I should be able to do the one but not the other.  Is there some way to directly access the properties of a running script application similar to the way you can with a script object?

What I am trying to do is to use a script application as a vehicle to store information which can then be available to any other scripts rather than writing the information to a file with all the associated read/write overhead.  I'm running Snow Leopard, Applescript version 2.1.2.



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