iCal: doesn't return all events between two dates ?

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In article ,
Mitrokhin wrote:

> The calendar that's causing me trouble is called "DKdage" and it has
> one event on March 21 (Equinox) and one on March 25 (summer time),
> no matter what I do (cp. script below) it does not return the latter,
> which btw is a special event in that it's set to start on the last
> sunday in march of every year ... hmm i just added a "normal" event
> to March 24 and it came through fine, so I suppose the problem is
> somehow connected to the special character of the summertime event.

I just tried with a calendar that contains recurring event, and indeed
they are not returned ! If I remove the conditions, I get SOME
occurrences but not all.

For instance, I have a weekly event (on "Mercredi", i.e. "Wednesday")
set up since January 5, 2005. But I only get 19 events, for these dates:

date "Mercredi, 16 novembre 2005 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 26 octobre 2005 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 5 janvier 2005 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 27 avril 2005 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 11 janvier 2006 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 28 septembre 2005 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 21 septembre 2005 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 21 décembre 2005 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 31 août 2005 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 7 septembre 2005 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 22 mars 2006 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 7 décembre 2005 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 1 mars 2006 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 26 avril 2006 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 23 août 2006 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 13 septembre 2006 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 25 octobre 2006 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 27 décembre 2006 10:00:00"
date "Mercredi, 3 janvier 2007 10:00:00"

Very strange ! BTW, this is the code I used :

set the returned_events to every event of calendar 4 ¬

repeat with i in returned_events
start date of i -- display start date in log
end repeat

Patrick
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In article ,
Mitrokhin wrote:

> The aforementioned event of march 25 still doesn't show and
> neither does events on april 2 and april 9: what they all have
> in common is, as we now would suspect, that they are recurring events
> - a pity really since I was planning to pull *historical* data from my
> calendars every now and then by way of applescript ...
> Anyway it would seem that we have in fact a bug on our hands, don't
> we !.

FWIW, Mac OS X 10.4.9 is a bit more consistent, it only returns the
first occurrence of a recurring event, and only it the first occurrence
is in the interval specified (if any).

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On Mar 21, 5:48 am, Mitrokhin wrote:
> i: alt.comp.lang.applescript
> dato: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:16:55 +0100
> msgID:
> titel: Re: iCal: doesn't return all events between two dates ?
> skrev: Patrick Stadelmann
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
> : In article ,
> : Mitrokhin wrote:
> :
> : > The aforementioned event of march 25 still doesn't show and
> : > neither does events on april 2 and april 9: what they all have
> : > in common is, as we now would suspect, that they are recurring events
> : > - a pity really since I was planning to pull *historical* data from my
> : > calendars every now and then by way ofapplescript...
> : > Anyway it would seem that we have in fact a bug on our hands, don't
> : > we !.
> :
> : FWIW, Mac OS X 10.4.9 is a bit more consistent, it only returns the
> : first occurrence of a recurring event, and only it the first occurrence
> : is in the interval specified (if any).
> :
>
> I see, still not what I had hoped for ... Alas you can't have it all I
> suppose :(
>
> have a nice day
>
> --
> Regards
> Mitrokhin.

iCal does not return recurring events to AppleScripts dealing with a
span of time if the first or original event is not in the span.
Events, however, have a property called "recurrence" and your script
has to find the first event and calculate whether it has a date in
your span. Since recurrence just returns "" if it is not a repeating
event, it is easy to find them. I simply look at all events, get the
summary, date and recurrence of each like this:

set today to (current date)
set span to 90 * days

-- Build the Medical List "MAppt" {name, date, name, date, ...}
tell application "iCal"
reload calendars
close window 1
set MCals to every calendar whose title contains "Medical"
set mCal to item 1 of MCals
set toGo to {}
-- Collect the date/name list as mdCal
set mCount to count events of mCal
set mdEvent to {}
set mdDate to {}
--set all to {}
repeat with n from 1 to mCount
-- Get summary, start date, and recurrence of each
tell event n of mCal to set {anEvent, aDate, Rep} to {summary of it,
start date of it, recurrence of it}
--set end of all to result
if Rep is not "" then
if Rep contains "Yearly" then
set Rep to (word -1 of Rep) as number
set year of aDate to (year of today) + 1
else if Rep contains "Weekly" then
set Rep to (word 6 of Rep) as number
tell (Rep * weeks) to set aDate to today + (it - ((today - aDate)
mod it))
end if
end if
if ((aDate) - today) > 0 and (aDate - today) < span then
set end of mdEvent to anEvent
set end of mdDate to aDate
end if
end repeat
end tell
-- what follows sorts the two lists on date, then presents a Growl
notification.
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