Control structure with "not"

[Peter Bogdanoff]

This won’t work for me because ALL the switches always have to be set to true, except for the one related sender.

On Aug 4, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> You could:
> 
> set tSwitchApple to (tSender is not "Apple")
> set tSwitchPeach to (tSender is not "Peach")
> set tSwitchGrape to (tSender is not "Grape")
> 
> Slightly different than your code because the switches would be set to
> false if the condition isn't met whereas you code doesn't do that.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:25 PM Peter Bogdanoff <bogdanoff at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to convert this to a switch control structure, or otherwise
>> refined somehow? The “not” is what I need, and the setting has to be always
>> “true”:
>> 
>> on doThisThing tSender
>>        if tSender is not “Apple” then
>>                set tSwitchApple to true
>>        end if
>> 
>>        if Sender is not “Peach” then
>>                set tSwitchPeach to true
>>        end if
>> 
>>        if Sender is not “Grape” then
>>                set tSwitchGrape to true
>>        end if
>> end doThisThing
>> 
>> Peter Bogdanoff
>> UCLA
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