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Re: Unexpected Finder window

On 3/01/07 20:43, kai wrote:


On 3 Jan 2007, at 18:40, Stockly, Ed wrote:

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.
[...]
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. 


So am I... ;-)

Does anyone else get an unwanted window from any of this? 


Not here.

Looks like as if, on Ed's machine, telling the Finder to activate were equivalent to click on the Finder's icon in the Dock. Some kind of third party Finder enhancer utility, perhaps?

Intrigued Axel
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