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Anonymous
December 16, 2009
Question

Error: Can't get every item of...

  • December 16, 2009
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I have a script that worked find in Tiger but it gives me an error
after I upgraded to Leopard 10.5.8.  I'm not sure how to fix it.

The script is supposed to make a list of dates that I can choose from.


Here it is:

                repeat with curyear in myyear
                         repeat with curmonth in mymonth
                                 repeat with curdate in mydate
                                         set mytemp to curmonth & " " & curdate & ", " & curyear
                                         set myjournal to (every item of myjournal) & mytemp
                                 end repeat
                         end repeat
                 end repeat

But now I get an error saying:

"Can’t get every item of \"\"."

Help please!

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sstanleyau
Inspiring
December 16, 2009

You're not showing the full script, so it's impossible to tell. Where is the error happening? Where does myjournal come from?

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Anonymous
December 16, 2009

Sorry about that. Here's the complete script. It should come up with a list

of dates to choose from.

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"

activate

set mydoc to active document

set myjournal to ""

set myyear to {2009, 2010}

set mymonth to {"January", "February", "March", "April", "May",

"June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"}

set mydate to {1, 15}

repeat with curyear in myyear

repeat with curmonth in mymonth

repeat with curdate in mydate

set mytemp to curmonth & " " & curdate & ", " & curyear

set myjournal to (every item of myjournal) & mytemp

end repeat

end repeat

end repeat

set mypick to (choose from list myjournal) as string

display dialog mypick

end tell

Bryan Colley

jupiterkansas@gmail.com

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sstanleyau
Inspiring
December 16, 2009

You still haven't said where you're getting the error -- it works here.

Try changing:

        set myjournal to ""

to
        set myjournal to {}
and:
                 set myjournal to (every item of myjournal) & mytemp
to
                 set end of myjournal to  mytemp

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