On 17/10/2005 11:15, "Luther Fuller" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I can write this code ...
>
> tell application "Finder"
> if not (exists file fileName of locRef) then
> make new file at locRef with properties {name:fileName}
>
> and get exactly what I want without error.
> But when I try this code ...
>
> tell application "System Events"
> make new file at locRef with properties {name:fileName}
>
> I always get: Error = 6, NSArgumentsWrongScriptError
>
> 'locRef' is an alias, but in the second snippet, I've tried posix path also,
> but same results.
>
> Does anyone know what's going on here?
Not sure exactly why but the following will work:
set desktopalias to path to desktop
tell application "System Events"
make new file at end of files of desktopalias with properties
{name:"ASD"}
end tell
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Matthew Smith
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