Re: applescript-users digest, Vol 2 #71 - 13 msgs
Re: applescript-users digest, Vol 2 #71 - 13 msgs
- Subject: Re: applescript-users digest, Vol 2 #71 - 13 msgs
- From: "Geoff Graham" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 10:59:19 -0600
At 5:46 AM -0800 11/24/00, Pitcher, George wrote:
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Hi,
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I am gradually moving over from Frontier to Applescript.
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I run two versions of Filemaker on a mac. One is used to deliver stats to
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our users, with Frontier handling authentication and web-page building. I
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can only get Frontier to do this with FMP3. However the database from which
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the stats data is taken from is FMP5. They both run happily side by side.
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I set up a script which would open the FMP5 files along with a password and
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that worked fine. I then added steps to open the FMP3 files which worked
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fine the first time executed. I had called FMP 5: 'Filemaker 5' as an
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application name and 'Filemaker 3' for the other version. When checking
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syntax, ScriptEditor asked me to find the two applications, which I did, and
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as I have already said, it then executed OK.
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So I saved the script as an application and dropped it into my startup
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folder.
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I restarted and Applescript threw a wobbly. When I looked again at the
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script, it had renamed both application names as 'Filemaker pro'.
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Does anyone have any suggested workrounds for this or am I wasting my time?
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You don't say for sure if you actually renamed your applications in the Finder to Filemaker 3 and Filemaker 5. I think upon compiling, AS will use the Finder name in the tell blocks - worth trying.
Geoff