AppleScript date
AppleScript date
- Subject: AppleScript date
- From: Joe Mac <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 03:21:54 -0700
I trying to make a simple AppleScript app so that I can input a date
into a NSTextField then have an Applescript use that text as a date. I
am following the Display Dialog example for inputing into a text field.
The problem I am having is converting the text in the text field to a
date. There has to be something special about the way it takes the
actual text from the text field, because the applescript command:
set theDay to "08/29/1980"
set theDay2 to date theDay
-> date "Friday, August 29, 1980 12:00:00 AM"
works fine outside of Xcode, but when I try and turn the contents of
the text field into a date, I get errors. I have tried different as
text, as date, as string after the code and nothing seems to work.
Here is part what I have in my script that doesn't work.
on clicked theObject
tell window "main"
1. set theDay to contents of text field "date"
2. set theDay2 to date (text returned of theDay)
I get error:
Can't get +class ttxt; of "08/29/1980". (-1728)
or
1. set theDay to contents of text field "date"
2. set theDay2 to date theDay
I get error:
NSCannotCreateScriptCommandError (10)
I can edit out line 2 and I get no errors, but then its useless. I
know you can have applescript prompt a dialog box to type in the text,
but I see no reason why this shouldn't work.
Any insight? Would you like the whole applescript of maybe the whole
build folder... only 92k... I can post it on a website if you like.
Thank you
Joe Mac
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