moving content of variable

[doug rogers]

On 18-Dec-04, at 1:42 AM, Ken Ray wrote:

>> :-) There is light at the end of this tunnel... but I can't tell if
>> it's the exit or an oncoming train :-)
>
> Try this... put this in a button:
>
> on mouseUp
>   put "Call Mom,Buy groceries" into tSubjects
>   put "3" into tPriority
>
>   put "tell application `iCal`" & cr & \
>       "copy `"  & tSubjects & "` to TheItems" & cr & \
>       "set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {`,`}" & cr & \
>       "set TheItems to text items of TheItems" & cr & \
>       "repeat with m from 1 to (count of TheItems)" & cr & \
>       "set the NewToDo to make new todo at the end of the todos" && \
>       "of the calendar 1 with properties {due date:(current date)," && 
> \
>       "priority:" & tPriority & ", summary:(item m of TheItems)}" & cr 
> & \
>       "end repeat" & cr & \
>       "end tell" into tAS
>
>   replace "`" with quote in tAS
>   do tAS as AppleScript
> end mouseUp
>
> This is how I work with AppleScript - I substitute left angle quotes 
> for
> real quotation marks while building the script and replace them with 
> quotes
> later, and I try to format it with the same line breaks as it would be 
> if it
> were being typed (note the \ line continuation characters).
>
> Hope this gives you some insight on how to work with AppleScript in 
> Rev...

  AAAaaaah! the ancient spaghetti script technique. Thank you Sensei!



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