Re: Name of Finder
Re: Name of Finder
- Subject: Re: Name of Finder
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:27:42 -0800
At 22:53 -0800 12/4/00, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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On 12/4/00 10:25 PM, "Richard 23" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> AppleScript will be able to locate the Finder whatever it's name if your
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> script is compiled with a Finder tell block. Within that tell block you
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> can get the name of the Finder (which might seem redundant but may not be
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> on international versions of the Mac OS) within such a block:
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> tell application "Finder"
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> set fndrName to name
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> end
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That either begs or answers the question, since the whole point of
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discovering the Finder's name was to know how to address 'tell application
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"Finder"'! If you're saying, as you appear to be, that 'tell application
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"Finder"' _always_ works, even if the Finder has another name on , say,
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Russian version of the OS (is everything there in Cyrillic) there may not
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even be a need any longer to get the name.
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So - does it?
At least until the advent of the ROM in RAM file in the newer Macs, a
folder could be used for startup if it contained a file named "System" and
a file named "Finder". I believe the Finder is named "Finder" in any
localization.
Things may have changed with the ROM in RAM stuff, with respect to Finder,
but I doubt it.
Things will differ under Mac OS X, probably.
--John (who once loaded the Finnish localization (of about System 6.?)
onto a startup disk, just for fun)
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA