Re: Trouble refreshing iCal
Re: Trouble refreshing iCal
- Subject: Re: Trouble refreshing iCal
- From: Aram Kudurshian <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:53:46 -0500
Hi Mike,
You're assumption is entirely correct. My whole goal is to allow
editing of To Do items without having to have iCal open.
I looked into the solution you've suggested but a side effect now is
that even if my applescript asks iCal to save the file to disk, it
won't immediately. This means that my program can't re-parse the
calendar and show the changes immediately.
I just wish there was a way to have iCal reload itself, without
having to have it relaunched.
Aram
On Jan 29, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Mike Abdullah wrote:
I've been thinking about this a little more. Can I assume that you
are writing the data directly to the calendar files so as to avoid
having to launch iCal? In which case, can I suggest something
along the following lines:
1. See if iCal is running
2. If it is then:
Use this NSAppleScript category: http://weblog.scifihifi.com/
2004/04/15/calling-applescript-handlers-from-cocoa/ to create the
to do in iCal
3. If iCal isn't running, then just use your existing method.
Mike.
On 29 Jan 2006, at 16:49, Aram Kudurshian wrote:
Hi,
I've written a small program that writes To Dos to iCal's calendar
files but am having trouble getting iCal to refresh it's listings
when open. If I write to the file and launch iCal, I have no
problems seeing the new data I've added. However, if iCal is open
and I write to the calendar file, iCal refuses to show changes
until iCal is quit and then relaunched - not an optimal solution
as if iCal makes any changes, it will overwrite my changes.
I've tried using the AppleScript function reload calendars but it
fails to do anything at all. I don't know whether this is broken
or just the way it works.
So, has anyone devised a solution into forcing iCal to reload it's
calendar listing? I was thinking of using AppleEvents but my
knowledge of the matter is close to nothing. The only thing I've
been able to do so far is download Script Debugger and determine
that the simple AppleScript:
tell application 'iCal'
reload calendars
end tell
...is translated into the following events:
'ascr'\'tell'{ '----':'psn '($0000000003EC0001$) }
'wrbt'\'aec8'{ &'subj':''null''(), &'csig':65536 }
'ascr'\'tend'{ }
If anyone has done this before or would know how to convert this
into an AppleEvent that my program could send, I'd be greatly
appreciative. Or, does anyone know of any workarounds that could
have my desired effect?
Thanks,
Aram Kudurshian
Aram Kudurshian
Hamilton College
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323
www.kudurshian.net
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