On 1/3/07 at -0000 kai said this
>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
>
>----------------
>
>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?
Not here.
System Version 10.4.8, Applescript Version 1.10.7, Script Debugger Version 4.0.5
JBS
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