At best this is confusing and inconsistent, but it looks like a bug
to me.
I just submitted a bugreport to Apple, assigned number 4130968. It's
described in more detail there.
Can anyone look this up and read it? How would I go about doing this?
I had thought that this wasn't allowed by Apple because developers
might reveal something about a product they are working on that hasn't
been released yet.
I'm not sure - I know I can look up my own bugs , but no I don't see a
way to search other's bugs. Any way, the site is at
https://bugreport.apple.com and you need an ADC account (free) to use
it. Here's the full text of my report, since it's not about a beta
product I see no harm posting it here. The steps I listed are very
explicit - I like to be overly explicit if in doubt - but it certainly
doesn't take 9 steps to see this bug...
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25-May-2005 07:11 PM Roger Howard:
Summary
Each track in a Quicktime movie has an editable name. Using Quicktime
Player this name can be edited by bringing up the Movie Properties, and
double-clicking the Name column for a track to make the field editable.
Quicktime Player is also scriptable. Each track has a "name" property
that is read/write. When read, this property initially corresponds to
the same value shown in Quicktime Player's Movie Properties window.
When this value is modified with the "set" command using AppleScript,
the name property is not edited; instead, a text annotation is added to
the track with a type "Title" and the value intended for the name
property. Once set this way, the "name" property of Quicktime Player
now reports the annotation value, not the track's (still unchanged)
name.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a movie in Quicktime Player (Pro)
2. Create a new script in Script Editor
3. Paste the following line into Script Editor:
tell app "Quicktime Player" to get the name of track 1 of movie 1
4. Note the value returned
5. Paste the following line into Script Editor:
tell app "Quicktime Player" to set the name of track 1 of movie 1 to
"New name"
6. Run the script
7. In Quicktime Player, bring up Movie Properties
6. Select the track (the second item in the list) whose value is the
same as the value returned in step 4
7. Note the value "New name" has been added as an annotation within the
first track, instead of modifying the track name as shown in the track
list.
8. Paste the following line into Script Editor:
tell app "Quicktime Player" to get the name of track 1 of movie 1
9. Note the value returned now reflects the value of the annotation
created in step 6, rather than the value in the name column shown in
Movie Properties.
Expected Results:
Modifying the name property of a track using AppleScript and Quicktime
Player should modify the name of the track, and querying the name
property of a track should always return the name of the track, not an
associated annotation. Behavior in Quicktime Player should be
consistent whether operated by a human or an AppleScript.
Actual Results:
When the name of a track is set via AppleScript, a text annotation of
type "Title" and with the value provided is added to the chosen track.
When later queried via AppleScript, the name property of a track will
report the value of the associated "Title" annotation rather than the
actual name of the teack.
Regression:
This problem has been confirmed on Mac OSX 10.4.1 and Quicktime 7; it
appears to be a problem new to Quicktime 7.
