Re: Finder 'show all'

I wouldn't touch GUI scripting with a proverbial 10 foot pole. But, I wondered if, perhaps, it could be done another way. My revulsion yielded the following ...

tell application "System Events" to

set visible of every application process whose visible is false and background only is false to true

On Jun 28, 2007, at 2:42 PM, James Nierodzik wrote:

Ahh!

Well here is how to do it via GUI scripting

activate application "Finder"

tell application "System Events"

tell process "Finder"

click menu item "Show All" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Finder" of menu bar 1

end tell

end tell

On Jun 28, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Russell McGaha wrote:

James;

Ahh; no.  I was speaking of the Finders 'Finder'  Menu item 'Show All' that shows all hidden App.'s .

Russell

On Jun 28, 2007, at 2:22 PM, James Nierodzik wrote:

Do you mean the ability to show hidden and system files?

If you do the command is

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

Just throw that into a do shell script command if you want to script it.

On Jun 28, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Russell McGaha wrote:

Guys/Gals;

Could anyone give me an example of how to mimic [or use the real thing], the functionality of the Finder's 'Show All'??

TIA

Russell

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