Re: Request for AppleScript books [and another newbie question]
Re: Request for AppleScript books [and another newbie question]
- Subject: Re: Request for AppleScript books [and another newbie question]
- From: Martin Crisp <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 21:57:21 +1100
- Organization: Tesseract Computing
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 22:26:46 +1100 the muse struck Michael Kelly, who
wrote (in message <
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On 3/6/02 6:21 PM, email@hidden <email@hidden> wrote:
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http://www1.fatbrain.com/search/searchresults.asp?SearchFunction=key&qtex
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> leScript&Submit.x=17&Submit.y=20
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Thanks! I'll be sure to check out those books.
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One other question:
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I've been looking through the Finder's dictionary and sifting through
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various online tutorials, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get a
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list of files inside a directory, or read and write to a file. Can someone
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point me in the right direction?
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Thanks alot,
Look in the Standard Additions dictionary. It has the file
Open/Read/Write commands. Opening an non-existant file makes a file
(untyped in 9.2.2? <mutter>), but the command "New File Name" will
display a save as dialog. [Which doesn't seem to return a flag
indicating if a file of that name exists, nor delete such if the user
indicates it should be overwritten]
and:
set my_filelist to {}
Tell application "finder"
set my_filelist to every item of folder "disk:folder1:subfolder1"
end tell
Have Fun
Martin
--
I have absolutely no reason to complain about "success" with my work;
[...] And yet, from time to time a boundless sense of inferiority
plagues me, a desperate feeling of general failure; how does a person
acquire such bits of lunacy?
- MC Escher
Almost always SMASHed
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