Re: posix path argument

Subject: Re: posix path argument

From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>

Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:02:25 +0200

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On 4/06/06 22:21, Nir Soffer wrote:

[...]

I found (thanks Gnarlodious) much nicer solution:
    set aPath to "/foo/bar"

    tell application "TextEdit"

        open my POSIX file aPath

    end tell
Anyone has a clue why you need "my" for "posix file"?

Deivy has already pointed a possible terminlogy conflict; may be a consequence of the Cocoa framework coming with scripting support. But such a conflict doesn't appear for a string->object coercion [1]: set aPath to "/foo/bar"

get POSIX file aPath get aPath as POSIX file tell application "TextEdit"

-- get POSIX file aPath get aPath as POSIX file

end tell

Also, the error you get if you leave out "my" is not very helpful.

Hmmm... ;-)

Try this code with a path to exiting file:
    set aPath to "/foo/bar"

    tell application "TextEdit"

        open POSIX file aPath

    end tell

You get:
TextEdit got an error: Can't make POSIX file \"/foo/bar\" into type alias. Instead of something about posix file.

But if you try with "get" instead of "open" (translated from french): TextEdit got an error: Can't make POSIX file \"/foo/bar\" into type reference. No mention to alias anymore (which probably appeared because TextEdit expects an alias for its open command). The second error message may appear to be more explicit as to the underlying problem. As a comparison, under 10.3.9, the error is: TextEdit got an error: NSCannotCreateScriptCommandError with both "get" and "open". Regards, Axel [1] I don't remember having ever seen that coercion explicitely documented. Someone?

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