Creating new iCal events

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#1

Hi guys,

I’m primarily a perl dude. Every once in awhile I struggle through an apple script. I’m stuck on this one. I’m sure it’s simple, so please excuse my ignorance. This script I wrote used to work, but stopped working awhile back (perhaps when I upgraded to 10.5?)… I get an error in this section:

 		 tell application "iCal"
			set theCalendar to (the first calendar whose title is calName)
			tell calendar theCalendar
				--make the event
				set newevent to make event at end of events of theCalendar with properties {summary:eventName, start date:eventStart, end date:eventEnd, location:eventPlace, description:eventDescription, url:eventUrl}
			end tell
		end tell

The error is:

iCal got an error: Can't make calendar id "938ABBFC-08A7-4E0E-887B-309278A47C97" into type integer.

Anyone know what the problem is?

Thanks,
Rob

#2

Hi,

too many double references

theCalender contains a reference to the filtered calendar.
this syntax is wrong

tell calendar theCalendar

use either

tell theCalendar

or

tell calendar calName

In the make event line is also a double reference (of theCalendar)

This is sufficient


tell application "iCal"
	tell calendar calName
		--make the event
		set newevent to make event at end of events with properties {summary:eventName, start date:eventStart, end date:eventEnd, location:eventPlace, description:eventDescription, url:eventUrl}
	end tell
end tell
#3

Awesome. Thanks. That worked. I think I’m gonna like macscripter.net. (I’m new here.)

Rob

#4

As a historical footnote, calendars had ‘titles’ in iCal 1.0, so the ‘whose’ filter would have been required then. (But as Stefan has pointed out, the rest of the script was incorrect anyway.) Calendars have had ‘names’ since iCal 2.0 and so can be specified in the form ‘calendar calName’.