set defaultApp to word -1 of (do shell script "defaults read
com.apple.LaunchServices LSHandlers | grep -A 2 'LSHandlerContentType
= \"com.adobe.pdf\";' | grep 'LSHandlerRoleAll = \"'")
The output of "defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices LSHandlers"
doesn't
contain "com.adobe.pdf" omm (10.4.9 intel), so a non-zero status
(error) is
returned by the command. So neither of these approaches works. Is
there any
other value to test against?
I guess you could try to parse the contents of a lsregister dump,
Laine. However, you'll probably still need to trap cases where the
default application has never been changed - perhaps with something
like this (watch for line wraps):
--------------------
on default_pdf_app()
tell application "Finder" to try
name of application file id (text from word 3 to -1 of paragraph -1
of (do shell script "/System/Library/Frameworks/
ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/
LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -dump | grep -
A 2 'content type: com.adobe.pdf'"))
on error
name of application file id "com.apple.Preview"
end try
end default_pdf_app
