Re: Determining the default CalendarName in Calendar
Re: Determining the default CalendarName in Calendar
- Subject: Re: Determining the default CalendarName in Calendar
- From: Bill Vlahos <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 07:27:18 -0700
Nigel,
Thank you. This works.
Bill Vlahos
> On May 17, 2015, at 5:32 AM, Nigel Garvey <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Bill Vlahos wrote on Sat, 16 May 2015 11:46:33 -0700:
>
>> AppleScript can create a calendar event using the following code.
>>
>> tell application "Calendar"
>> activate
>> tell (first calendar whose name is calendarName)
>> set vEventInfo to make new event at end of events with properties
>> {summary:theSummary, start date:startDate, end date:endDate,
>> description:theDescription, location:theLocation}
>>
>> How can I remove the requirement to specify the calendarName and have it
>> just use whatever is set as the default calendar in the Calendar
>> application?
>
> Hi.
>
> This seems to work:
>
> -- Read and analyse Calendar's preferences, returning the default calendar's ID.
> -- The sed code outputs the CalDefaultCalendar value if it's quoted (ie. an ID); otherwise the "last selected calendar list item" value.
> -- The line containing the latter value is stored and used only if no
> CalDefaultCalendar value is returned first.
> set defaultCalendarID to (do shell script "defaults read com.apple.iCal | sed -En '
> /^.+CalDefaultCalendar [^\\\"]+\\\"([^\\\"]+).+/ { s//\\1/p ; q ; }
> /last selected calendar list item/ h
> $ { g ; s/^[^=]+[^\\\"]+\\\"([^\\\"]+).+$/\\1/p; }'")
>
> tell application "Calendar"
> set defaultCalendar to calendar id defaultCalendarID
> name of defaultCalendar -- Test.
> end tell
>
>
> NG
>
>
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