Re: Cocoa and AppleScript
Re: Cocoa and AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Cocoa and AppleScript
- From: matt neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:54:21 -0700
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:05:01 +0200, Lorenzo <email@hidden> said:
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Hi,
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I have an AppleScript which returns a "list" of strings.
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But I think I am using a strange Cocoa way to get this
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list. May you please tell me whether I am doing right?
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My AppleScript is:
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set myList to {}
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copy "item_1" to end of myList
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copy "item_2" to end of myList
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copy "item_3" to end of myList
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return myList
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My Cocoa code is:
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NSAppleEventDescriptor *mainDesc, subDesc ;
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mainDesc = [myAppleScript executeAndReturnError:nil];
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if(mainDesc == nil) NSLog(@"mainDesc is nil");
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else{
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int i, items = [mainDesc numberOfItems];
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if(items > 0){
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for(i = 1; i <= items; i++){
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subDesc = [mainDesc descriptorAtIndex:i];
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if(subDesc)
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NSLog(@"subDesc %d string: %@", i, [newDesc stringValue]);
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}
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}
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NSLog(@"mainDesc string: %@", [mainDesc stringValue]);
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}
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I noted that when the list contains one item only,
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[mainDesc stringValue] is not null and return the right
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string. But, when the list contains more than one item,
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[mainDesc stringValue] is null and I have to iterate
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within the mainDesc to get all the items. Also the
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iterator items start from 1. Is all of this correct?
According to p. 36 of my book, it is. Of course, we could *both* be wrong...
:) m.
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