AppleScript Whose
John Gruber writes about the AppleScript whose clause, which add a kind of declarative filtering to AppleScript. whose is great in simple situations, but it doesn’t scale. The more interesting point: why do so many languages force you to use temporary lists and loops just to filter a list? It’s sad, really.
i've got a vexing problem w/a whose clause, also:
eyeBundle is a local, then this code
tell application "EyeTV"
with timeout of 3 seconds
set eyeTVrec to recordings whose location contains my eyeBundle
...
fails:
EyeTV got an error: Can't get every recording whose location contains eyeBundle of «script».
but if i un the same code in a test script (not my humungous .app)
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set eyeBundle to "Exploring Space_ The Quest for Life - 3_7_07 8_05 PM.eyetv"
tell application "EyeTV"
with timeout of 3 seconds
set eyeTVrec to recordings whose location contains my eyeBundle
there's no problem:
tell application "EyeTV"
get every recording whose location contains "Exploring Space_ The Quest for Life - 3_7_07 8_05 PM.eyetv"
{recording id 1.95008719E+8}
get location of recording id 1.95008719E+8
file "toms160gB:Users:Shared:DVR:renamedRecs:EyeTV Archive:Exploring Space_ The Quest for Life - 3_7_07 8_05 PM.eyetv:000000000b9f98cf.eyetvr"
end tell
wtf???