[miketosch]

I think I found a bug in Address Book's Applescript support in 10.2. When getting the "birth date" of a "person" it seems to return their "organization". I came across this when writing a script to add birthdays in Address Book to iCal as events.

This script demonstrates it:

tell application "Address Book"
set every_contact to every person
set nameList to {}
repeat with eachPerson in every_contact
set nameList to nameList & birth date of eachPerson
end repeat
end tell

Notice how it's giving back company names?

I have already reported this to Apple. Has anyone else run into this? Anybody find a way around it in Applescript?

Thanks,
Mike

[bewebste]

I ran across the same bug. From what I can tell, there's no way around it except to wait for Apple to fix it. I think that the problem is limited to the Address Book application, so getting the stuff from the underlying database using the AddressBook.framework APIs works, it's just the app's Applescript support that's screwed up.