Nah, it's not a bother. We all have to learn by asking. I never begrudge questions. On Dec 11, 2005, at 11:27 PM, louie wrote:
> Very good I will go there. Thanks for all of your help. If I get to > be a > pest just tell me to back off. > Louie > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Travis Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Discussions on developing for Mac OS X by the blind" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 8:18 PM > Subject: Re: Apple script > > > >> You can get the pdf for the apple script language at http:// >> developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/ >> AppleScriptLangGuide/AppleScriptLanguageGuide.pdf >> There's other related documentation on the page the pdf is linked >> from, so if you're interested, take a look there too. That one will >> give you everything you need to get started though, it's 415 pages, >> and all of it is packed with terms, samples, tables, and actual >> useful stuff too. :) >> On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:11 PM, louie wrote: >> >> >>> Travis , >>> I have a lot of reading to do.. Where did you find the PDF document? >>> Louie >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Travis Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "Discussions on developing for Mac OS X by the blind" >>> <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 6:40 PM >>> Subject: Re: Apple script >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> This one is done for us by apple already. >>>> Each of the date fields already has a corresponding string we can >>>> get. >>>> month string, gives the month (jan, feb, mar, ...) Day string gives >>>> us 1,2,3,... (day of month) year string gives us the year, and >>>> weekday string gives us the day of the week (monday, tuesday, ...) >>>> They all work the same as shown below with the time field. >>>> They're listed on page 62 in the adobe version of the apple >>>> scripting >>>> manual (I don't know where they are in the html version) >>>> hth. >>>> On Dec 11, 2005, at 8:57 PM, louie wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Travis this be cool. What I would like to do is parse ever field >>>>> out of the >>>>> string. The would be a hour, minute, second, am pm, year, month >>>>> and >>>>> so on. >>>>> How does one find the structure of date? >>>>> Thanks >>>>> Louie >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Travis Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> To: "Discussions on developing for Mac OS X by the blind" >>>>> <[email protected]> >>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 4:09 PM >>>>> Subject: Re: Apple script >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Yeah, I noticed that too. It has a lot to do with what datatype >>>>>> the >>>>>> data is. Apparently strings are interpreted letter by letter, >>>>>> whereas other data types such as date are interpreted as >>>>>> uunits for >>>>>> each portion of the date. Here's something that does what you >>>>>> want, >>>>>> though it doesn't use terminal to do so. You can of course >>>>>> still use >>>>>> terminal in your script, as the results will be the same. >>>>>> >>>>>> ** begin script** >>>>>> set thedate to (current date) as date >>>>>> set time1 to time string of thedate >>>>>> say "It is " >>>>>> say time1 >>>>>> **End script** >>>>>> This doesn't use the item usage described before, but with the >>>>>> date >>>>>> type, it does work as expected. I have no idea why strings are >>>>>> treated as letters instead of words. You could of coourse use >>>>>> the >>>>>> repeat command to get each word individually using space as the >>>>>> matching char for separation. It seems to me there should be >>>>>> another >>>>>> method for doing this. I'll see if I can find it. I'm only a >>>>>> beginner with apple scripting, so I know there's things I have >>>>>> overlooked or not learned. >>>>>> On Dec 11, 2005, at 2:37 PM, louie wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Travis Thanks for the help. It did not work like you said. >>>>>>> set dat to current date as string >>>>>>> set d to get item 1 of dat >>>>>>> say d >>>>>>> What this code produced was the first letter of the string or >>>>>>> should I say >>>>>>> list. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Louie >>>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>>> From: "Travis Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>>> To: "Discussions on developing for Mac OS X by the blind" >>>>>>> <[email protected]> >>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 11:11 PM >>>>>>> Subject: Re: Apple script >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> To get any part of a string (Apple calls them lists) you use >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> "Item" keyword. >>>>>>>> I.E. item 4 of D in your example would include the year. >>>>>>>> Get Item 4 of D would result in D containing 2005. >>>>>>>> Hope this helps. >>>>>>>> On Dec 8, 2005, at 8:25 PM, louie wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>>>> I am trying to figure out how to parse a string. >>>>>>>>> the string is created with the below line of code. >>>>>>>>> set d to current date as string >>>>>>>>> This produces the string >>>>>>>>> Thursday, December 8, 2005 5:15:11 PM >>>>>>>>> What I would like to do is get the month, name of day, day of >>>>>>>>> month >>>>>>>>> and year. >>>>>>>>> Thanks for any help. >>>>>>>>> Louie >>>>>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> Developer mailing list >>>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>>> http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ >>>>>>>>> developer_macvisionaries.com >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Developer mailing list >>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>> http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ >>>>>>>> developer_macvisionaries.com >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Developer mailing list >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ >>>>>>> developer_macvisionaries.com >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Developer mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ >>>>>> developer_macvisionaries.com >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Developer mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ >>>>> developer_macvisionaries.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Developer mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ >>>> developer_macvisionaries.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Developer mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ >>> developer_macvisionaries.com >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ >> developer_macvisionaries.com >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ > developer_macvisionaries.com > _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/developer_macvisionaries.com
