Inside Macintosh: QuickTime Reference

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The count command

The count command counts the number of elements in a QuickTime Player object.

count: Return the number of elements of a particular class within an object

               count reference -- the object whose elements are to be counted

                    each type class -- the class of the elements to be counted

               Result: integer -- the number of elements

For example:

tell application "QuickTime Player"

               count every track of movie ¬

                    "Sample Movie"

end tell

               Result: 2


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