Re: Finder's open event has properties? Cal?
Re: Finder's open event has properties? Cal?
- Subject: Re: Finder's open event has properties? Cal?
- From: Peter Fine <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 17:33:40 -0500
on 12/4/00 9:22 PM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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On 12/4/00 4:26 PM, "Peter Fine" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> But the ID property of the Finder's 'application file' object is supposed to
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> be an integer, not a string.
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Well, no. Here's the ancient Finder Guide, p.35:
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Objects of class Application File, Disk, and Folder can also be identified
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by ID. The ID in each case consists of the application file9s creator type
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(as a string), the disk9s ID, and the folder9s folder ID, respectively.
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Puzzling, but true.
But this contradicts the Finder 9,0 dictionary.
(BTW, the Finder Scripting Guide was last modified in 1996.)
One lesson to be learned, I fear, is that reason won't help you much in
working with AppleScript syntax. Too many inconsistencies, special cases,
undocumented idiomatic expressions. Quite like a human language, I suppose.
Peter