Re: a handler runs after compile, but never again

• Subject: Re: a handler runs after compile, but never again
• From: Graff <email@hidden>
• Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:44:51 -0500

If you are just looking for the folder that encloses a certain file this statement works fine:
set theContainer to (the container of the file filepathstring) as text

It looks like you want the grandparent folder (2 folders up from the file) so you would do this:
set theContainer to (the container of the container of the file filepathstring) as text

This would would eliminate the need for a separate function to do this, since the entire contents of the function are replaced by 1 line of code. It's a cleaner solution than fooling around with text item delimiters and all.

On Nov 30, 2003, at 10:40 AM, Matyas Ferenc Farkas wrote:

hi,

there is the troublemaker:

tell application "Finder"
set filepathstring to "Macintosh HD:Users:spoun:Desktop:demofolder:mappa Ordner:mappa2:mappa3:"
log theContainer(filepathstring) of me
end tell

on theContainer(filepath)
tell application "Finder"
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
set theContainer to (filepath's text items 1 thru ((count (every text item in (filepath as string))) - 2)) as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
set theContainer to theContainer & ":" as string
end tell
return theContainer
end theContainer

if i modify something, and run once it runs, but if i run it one more time, the error message:

Script untitled 6 started
tell current application
theContainer("Macintosh HD:Users:spoun:Desktop:demofolder:mappa Ordner:mappa2:mappa3:")
theContainer("Macintosh HD:Users:spoun:Desktop:demofolder:mappa Ordner:mappa2:mappa3:")
end tell
Script untitled 6 finished
--> +script; doesn't understand the theContainer message.

i need this workaround, becouse the filepath does not exists at run time as an alias. thanks for any comments.

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