Re: Property list value - Thank you all

[Teo Petralia]

Thank you all!!
You saved me an headache. Unfortunately you didn't save to me the 
frustration of trying to get it right but is not your fault.

Is good not be alone in the world, sometimes I forget it.

Thank you again

Teo


You're almost there...

repeat with aa = 1 to count(propertyListName)
 set TheName to getPropAt(propertyListName, aa)
set TheValue to ???
  set the value to getAt(propertyListName, aa)

getPropAt gets you the prop at the location
getAt gets you the value at the location.
Optimization hint - get the count outside the loop, as in:

numItems =count(propertyListName)
repeat with aa = 1 to numItems
  theName =getPropAt(propertyListName, aa)
  theValue =getAt(propertyListName, aa)
end repeat
Otherwise you're calling the count function for every time through 
the list, even though the list doesn't change.

Probably not as critical now in these days of overclocked 1 ghz 
processors, but still, a good optimization habit.

- Tab



At 09:20 PM 6/8/03, Teo Petralia wrote:
Hello!
I can't figure out how to access a property list value using list 
number instead of using property name. For instance if I want to go 
through all the items of a property list and get all the values 
using a repeat loop what I need to do?

Like:
repeat with aa = 1 to count(propertyListName)
 set TheName to getPropAt(propertyListName, aa)
set TheValue to ???
end repeat

thanks for any suggestions

Teo
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