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Scripting more than one version of an app?
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Scripting more than one version of an app?


  • Subject: Scripting more than one version of an app?
  • From: "Pitcher, George" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:05:49 -0000

Hi,

I am gradually moving over from Frontier to Applescript.

I run two versions of Filemaker on a mac. One is used to deliver stats to
our users, with Frontier handling authentication and web-page building. I
can only get Frontier to do this with FMP3. However the database from which
the stats data is taken from is FMP5. They both run happily side by side.

I set up a script which would open the FMP5 files along with a password and
that worked fine. I then added steps to open the FMP3 files which worked
fine the first time executed. I had called FMP 5: 'Filemaker 5' as an
application name and 'Filemaker 3' for the other version. When checking
syntax, ScriptEditor asked me to find the two applications, which I did, and
as I have already said, it then executed OK.

So I saved the script as an application and dropped it into my startup
folder.

I restarted and Applescript threw a wobbly. When I looked again at the
script, it had renamed both application names as 'Filemaker pro'.

Does anyone have any suggested workrounds for this or am I wasting my time?

Regards

George Pitcher

Technical Manager

HERON Project
Merchiston Learning Centre
Napier University
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh EH10 5DT

Tel: 0131-455 2435
Fax: 0131-455 2249

www.heron.ac.uk


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