You see if I run this script on my mac, when there is NO Finder
window open...
tell application "Finder"
activate
tell Finder window 1 to if exists then
set current view to list view
--do other stuff
end if
end tell
Then the script actually opens a new window, but doesn't execute
any of the other commands within the freaky tell/if block.
That behaviour certainly doesn't occur here.
A cursory glance at the event log reveals that the above translates
(roughly) as:
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tell application "Finder"
activate
if exists Finder window 1 then
set current view of Finder window 1 to list view
--do other stuff
end if
end tell
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Does the latter syntax produce a new window on your machine or not?
As I said before that's a pretty nifty construct, but I'm not sure
how reliable it is and I certainly wouldn't recommend it for
ordinary AppleScripters.
You may have missed Mr. N's comment on this but, since we're clearly
now in repeat mode, let's replay a snippet:
However, the grammar allows any statement to follow the "to", so
an "if" is perfectly valid...
The scripting style may not be to your taste, which is fine; don't
use it and don't recommend it. However, the suggestion that you're
getting strange behaviour from a mild syntactic variation does
interest me.
Does anyone else get an unwanted window from any of this?
