I am wondering if there is any way to actually generate names for variables in a script. I am working on something that may require me to store items in a new variable whose name is determined by its cycle in a repeat loop.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
tim
Sort of a work around would be to create record labels on the fly
set variables to {}
repeat with i from 1 to 5
set end of variables to "var" & i & ":\"\""
end repeat
set text item delimiters to ","
set variables to "{" & (variables as string) & "}"
set variables to run script variables
To refer to them you refer to them of the record
var1 of variables
And heres an example prompting user for the record labels to create
set variables to {}
repeat
display dialog "Enter a variable name" default answer "" buttons {"Cancel", "Another", "Done"} cancel button 1
tell result
if button returned is "Done" then
exit repeat
else if text returned is not "" then
set end of variables to text returned & ":\"\""
end if
end tell
end repeat
set text item delimiters to ","
set variables to "{" & (variables as string) & "}"
set variables to run script variables
Don’t know if that will help you or not, but have fun!
Thanks for those helps.
The one limitation I will have is that I don’t know how many variable names I will need at the outset.
Items are being taken out of a list until it is empty.
Could the variable name be generated in a handler?
How does one assign a new variable name to a statement, like
Set (new variable generated name) to (value) ?
Thanks for your help!
tim