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    AppleScript: Location Manager 2.0 Scripting
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8/25/98
3/18/99
TOPIC

    How can I script Location Manager version 2.0?

DISCUSSION

    The Location Manager 2.0 has some limited scripting capability.

    The ability to use the AppleScript "every" phrase is not yet implemented, however this facility can be worked around by doing a little more scripting.

    Example 1

    tell application "Location Manager" to get the name of every location -- doesn't work in version 2.0

    An example solution to the above limitation is:

    set LocationNames to {} -- start with a null list
    tell application "Location Manager"
    repeat with i from 1 to count of locations
    copy name of location i to LocationNames
    end
    end

    At the end of this script's execution, the variable LocationNames will be a list of every location name.


    Example 2

    tell application "Location Manager" to get the name of the current location -- doesn't work in version 2.0

    An example solution to the above limitation is:

    set CurrentLocName to "" -- start with a null string
    tell application "Location Manager"
    repeat with i from 1 to count of locations
    if location i is the current location then
    copy name of location i to CurrentLocName
    end
    end
    end

    At the end of this script's execution, the variable CurrentLocName will be the name of the current location.
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