Re: Property list value

[Tab Julius]

You're almost there...

repeat with aa = 1 to count(propertyListName)
 set TheName to getPropAt(propertyListName, aa)
set TheValue to ???
  set the value to getAt(propertyListName, aa)

getPropAt gets you the prop at the location
getAt gets you the value at the location.
Optimization hint - get the count outside the loop, as in:

numItems =count(propertyListName)
repeat with aa = 1 to numItems
  theName =getPropAt(propertyListName, aa)
  theValue =getAt(propertyListName, aa)
end repeat
Otherwise you're calling the count function for every time through the 
list, even though the list doesn't change.

Probably not as critical now in these days of overclocked 1 ghz processors, 
but still, a good optimization habit.

- Tab



At 09:20 PM 6/8/03, Teo Petralia wrote:
Hello!
I can't figure out how to access a property list value using list number 
instead of using property name. For instance if I want to go through all 
the items of a property list and get all the values using a repeat loop 
what I need to do?

Like:
repeat with aa = 1 to count(propertyListName)
 set TheName to getPropAt(propertyListName, aa)
set TheValue to ???
end repeat

thanks for any suggestions

Teo
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