a Newb? getting a temp variable from a list of constant variables

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#1

Newb question, I am trying to teach myself applescript and have run into an issue
Any help is appreciated

I have been trying to get this to work but it fails to do what I want.
I want to have a box come up with a choice from a list of variables. Then I want to have the choice made turned into a new variable, for this case it is desc. (That does not work it comes back as TEXT after display Dialog) I expected what was chosen ex: “choice A”. and that variable passed to the rest of the script -make new ical with the variable desc with the description from desc. If I pull out the if, then, else statement and use the aD, bD or cD variable, the tell application ical create a calendar aD with description aD part works.


set aDesc to "choice A"

set bDesc to "choice B"

set cDesc to "choice C"

set desc to string -- temp holder of value passed from above variables

choose from list {aDesc, bDesc, cDesc} with prompt "Choose  A, B or C"
--display dialog result

if result = aDesc then
	set aDesc to desc
else
	if result = bDesc then
		set bDesc to desc
	else
		if result = cDesc then
			set cDesc to desc
		end if
	end if
end if
--display dialog desc

tell application "iCal"
	create calendar with name desc
end tell

tell application "iCal"
	tell calendar desc
		set theDate to current date
		make new event at end with properties {description:desc, summary:"summary", location:"Location", start date:theDate, allday event:true}
	end tell
end tell
#2

Hi,

try this


set aDesc to "choice A"
set bDesc to "choice B"
set cDesc to "choice C"
-- set desc to string -- temp holder of value passed from above variables

set desc to choose from list {aDesc, bDesc, cDesc} with prompt "Choose  A, B or C"
if desc is false then return
set desc to item 1 of desc -- choose from list returns a list

tell application "iCal"
	if not (exists calendar desc) then make new calendar with properties {name:desc}
	tell calendar desc
		set theDate to current date
		make new event at end with properties {description:desc, summary:"summary", location:"Location", start date:theDate, allday event:true}
	end tell
end tell