Thank you! On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Christopher Nebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Anyone know how to get the index of the current iTunes track using > > Scripting Bridge? With Applescript, it's as simple as "tell iTunes > > to return index of current track", but iTunes SB has no such > > property (well, there is one, but it only refers to the index of the > > current playlist). It seems the iTunesTrack index property is simply > > missing...? Or am I missing something? > > What's missing is the line in iTunes' dictionary that says that tracks > have an "index" property in the first place. Scripting Bridge takes > the dictionary at its word, and therefore, no -[iTunesTrack index] > accessor. Ultimately, it's an iTunes bug. In the meantime, you can > work around the problem by using the raw codes [1]: > > int index = [[[[iTunes currentTrack] propertyWithCode:'pidx'] get] > intValue]; > > Ordinarily, Scripting Bridge would take care of the -get and -intValue > for you, since this is an attribute you're dealing with [2], but if > you're dropping down to the base level, you have to be explicit. > > > --Chris Nebel > AppleScript Engineering > > [1] You can find the raw code by inspecting the dictionary. For spot > queries like this, I find it easiest to use Terminal: > > % sdef /Applications/iTunes.app | xmllint --format - | grep > 'name="index"' > <property name="index" code="pidx" type="integer" access="r" > description="the index of the playlist in internal application order"/> > > [2] This is covered in the documentation under "Lazy Evaluation": > when you use an accessor that returns an attribute (in other words, > anything that isn't an SBObject descendant or SBElementArray), > Scripting Bridge will automatically do a -get and unbox the value for > you. > _______________________________________________
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