On 11/5/2000 2:55 AM, "Bill Cheeseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 11/4/00 11:40 PM, Dan Crevier at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> On 11/3/2000 11:32 AM, "Bill Cheeseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> And there's something wrong with categories. A contact's Category and Links
>>> properties both return lists, yet you have to jump through an extra hoop or
>>> two to get at the Category list (for example, in some contexts I have to
>>> refer to "its category" while I don't have to do that for Links in the same
>>> context).
>>
>> Can you give an example? I know that whose clauses are broken, but what
>> else isn't behaving as you'd expect.
>
> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
> tell contact 1
> set myCategories to category --> category
> -- set aCategory to item 1 of myCategories --> error:Can't get item
> 1 of category
> set myCategories to category of it --> {category id 6 of application
> "Microsoft Entourage"}
> set aCategory to item 1 of result --> category id 6 of application
> "Microsoft Entourage"
> name of aCategory --> "Family"
> end tell
> end tell
>
> You don't have to use "of it" when you run the same script to get links of
> contact 1.
Ahh. The problem is that category is both the name of a class and the name
of a property, and this confuses AppleScript sometimes. Maybe I should have
chosen a different name for the property to get around this problem.
Dan
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