Separate Sets of Variables? [Solved]

[Zabobon]

@tiffle

Yes, that isn’t very helpful. It should end with the same example it started with. Maybe the wiki can be tidied up?

At present the Wiki says this:

I think I would have been a lot less confused if the Wiki had said something more like this:

[tiffle]

@Zabobon

I think I would have been a lot less confused if the Wiki had said something more like this

I agree, that would be clearer.

@peternlewis @JMichaelTX - can the wiki be updated along these lines please?

[JMichaelTX]

@tiffle

@peternlewis @JMichaelTX - can the wiki be updated along these lines please?

That will have to be a job for @peternlewis, since I barely understand KM Dictionaries, and almost never use them.

[ccstone]

@JMichaelTX

since I barely understand KM Dictionaries, and almost never use them.

Keyboard Maestro's dictionaries are an extreme PITA to create and maintain.

I'd much rather use a plain text table or a JSON object.

-Chris

[Zabobon]

@ccstone

Keyboard Maestro's dictionaries are an extreme PITA to create and maintain.

I'd much rather use a plain text table or a JSON object.

@JMichaelTX

That will have to be a job for @peternlewis, since I barely understand KM Dictionaries, and almost never use them.

I would be more than happy to make the small suggested edit changes to the Wiki myself (but I don't think I have the privileges needed to do that?) as I have found the Dictionaries to be genuinely useful in the last week - having never tried them before. I am sure others would find uses for Dictionaries too and that many have probably given up at the first hurdle.

[JMichaelTX]

@Zabobon

I would be more than happy to make the small suggested edit changes to the Wiki myself (but I don't think I have the privileges needed to do that?)

If you would like to post a Topic in the Wiki Category (sub-forum) with your proposed changes, I would be happy to apply them to the actual KM Wiki.

[Zabobon]

@JMichaelTX

If you would like to post a Topic in the Wiki Category (sub-forum) with your proposed changes, I would be happy to apply them to the actual KM Wiki.

Thanks @JMichaelTX - I was just about to do that but see that @ccstone has gone ahead and made the changes to the Wiki.

The most confusing part in the Wiki before was the use of the word "name" in different parts of the explanation rather than "key". This is what gave me a headache the first time when I tried to read the explanation.

It was also confusing having the recall example straight away use a variable (which hadn't been referred to before). Not to mention the recall example being about people (who by coincidence also had "names")... rather than coffee prices...

Once the % symbols and [ and , are understood the final syntax is actually not that hard.

Also good to show that each Value has its own "Set Dictionary" Action - very similar to Setting a Variable.

And as a footnote I see that the AppleScript for setting Dictionaries has now been corrected:

Keyboard Maestro Dictionary Feature Requests

Hey @peternlewis, I've tried every which way to create a Keyboard Maestro dictionary with AppleScript and had no success. For instance: tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" set newDict to make new dictionary with properties {name:"TestDict01"} # The above line _does_ return a correct looking result, but it doesn't work. set value of dictionary key "Coffee" of dictionary "Testdict01" to "3.50" --> Error end tell tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" set newDict to make …

[JMichaelTX]

@Zabobon

It was also confusing having the recall example straight away use a variable (which hadn't been referred to before). Not to mention the recall example being about people (who by coincidence also had "names")... rather than coffee prices...

Once the % symbols and [ and , are understood the final syntax is actually not that hard.

So is the Wiki clear now?

[Zabobon]

@JMichaelTX

So is the Wiki clear now?

Yes.

If the Wiki had been as it is now, I might not have had to ask the question which started this thread

[Zabobon]

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