Re: Name of Finder
Re: Name of Finder
- Subject: Re: Name of Finder
- From: Allen Watson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:02:23 -0800
On or near 12/4/00 10:25 PM, Richard 23 at email@hidden observed:
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> Is there some way in AppleScript to get the name of Finder without knowing
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> Finder's name?
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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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As Paul remarked, this seems to beg the question. ARE WE SAYING THAT:
tell application "Finder"
always works, no matter what the base language of the system is? If so,
there is no need to get the name, because it is a given. If not, how do we
determine what it is so that we can write a "tell" block for it?
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