Passing iCal description to variable in Applescript

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
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#1

Goal: To pass the description of an event from iCal to Applescript.
Reason: I would like to write the description of the iCal event to a text file.

So basically what I need is the function / scriplet to pull the description and assign to a variable. Any help is appreciated. Thanks !


-- Script magic to get iCal description out of iCal
-- set myDesc to iCal description
set myDescFile to alias "Macintosh HD:Users:xxxxx:Desktop:desc.txt"
set eof of myDescFile to 0
open for access myDescFile with write permission
write myDesc to myDescFile
close access myDescFile
#2

Hi,

you can retrieve the information by specifying the event


tell application "iCal" to set myDesc to description of event 1 of calendar 1
#3

Stefan,
Thanks for your response but I am apparently still missing something basic.

-- Script magic to get iCal description out of iCal
tell application "iCal" to set myDesc to description of event 1 of calendar 1
-- set myDesc to iCal description
set myDescFile to alias "Macintosh HD:Users:xxxx:Desktop:desc.txt"
set eof of myDescFile to 0
close access myDescFile
open for access myDescFile with write permission
write myDesc to myDescFile
close access myDescFile

When this script is called due to an alarm, I get “Applescript event alarm did not execute properly … did not open or did not finish running”.
If I run it from script editor I get “I get variable not defined” which I expected.

I am sure it is something simple but simple things always defeat me. Thanks in advance.