ICal Alarm - Pass Event data to AppleScript?

Question

Is there a way that a script called by an iCal alarm can be passed event data as parameters?

Answer 1

This is a quick one I knocked up a while back to see if it was possible. The problem is that iCal doesn't tell the script what event triggered it, so you have to go looking ...
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called from iCal as on alarm, will speak the title of the alarm event
won't work for repeating events
AK ITCarlow Nov 2004
set Now to current date
-- Adjust FuzzSeconds to suit; if too big, close events will speak several times
set FuzzSeconds to 15
tell application "iCal"
set MyEvents to every event of every calendar where ((start date of it) ≥ (current date))
repeat with ThisEvent in MyEvents --scan the list looking for events that have triggered us
try
set MinutesBefore to (trigger interval of open file alarm of ThisEvent) as number
set TriggerInt to (Now - ((start date of ThisEvent) + 60 * MinutesBefore)) --notionally 0 for firing event
if (TriggerInt < FuzzSeconds) and (TriggerInt > (-FuzzSeconds)) then
say (summary of ThisEvent as text) & " at " & (start date of ThisEvent as text)
--could say other fields too eg location, description ...
end if
end try
end repeat
end tell
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AK