Re: Name of Finder
Re: Name of Finder
- Subject: Re: Name of Finder
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:12:05 -0800
On 12/5/00 9:02 AM, "Allen Watson" <email@hidden> wrote:
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As Paul remarked, this seems to beg the question. ARE WE SAYING THAT:
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tell application "Finder"
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always works, no matter what the base language of the system is? If so,
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there is no need to get the name, because it is a given. If not, how do we
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determine what it is so that we can write a "tell" block for it?
Furthermore:
I happen to know that the person urgently wanting this information (on
another mailing list) is planning to "package" the script with the 'tell app
"Finder"' block as uncompiled text within a "run script" command. (It has to
do with some sort of combined applescript/VBA script for Word.) So the word
"Finder" will be uncompiled to begin with. Also, we have heard definitely
(on that same mailing list) that on Japanese and Chinese OS Macs, all names
in the interface, including that of the Finder, are in Japanese/Chinese.
So: will 'tell application "Finder"' work under these circumstances?
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Paul Berkowitz