Re: apply catalog info
Re: apply catalog info
- Subject: Re: apply catalog info
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 08:44:22 -0700
'short version' and 'long version' are both bad examples for you to be
trying to apply catalog info as a test, and I shouldn't have tried to abet
you!
Look at the Akua Dictionary for 'Class Extended Info Rec', which explains
what you'll find there:
short version string [r/o] -- the version string for the file (from the
Finder9s Get Info9 box)
long version string [r/o] -- the long version string for the file (from
the Finder9s Get Info9 box)
See the [r/o] for both of them? That means "read-only". You can't write
them. The versions are what they are - you can't pretend they're something
else. So 'apply catalog info' won't work for them. Try your test with
'desktop comment' and it should work. Other things to be aare of:
this_item
must be an alias or file:
file "Macintosh Hard Disk:Desktop Folder:Some File"
and don't do this in a Finder tell block.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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From: "T.J. Mahaffey" <email@hidden>
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Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 10:12:28 -0700
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To: <email@hidden>
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Subject: <no subject>
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Paul, thank you for your generous help. But I don't think I'm getting it
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right... Here's how I've got it set up and it's not panning out. The error
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essentially returns "can't set.... to 'this is a test'" and lists every
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property within the file's info box. So it seems to be trying to set my test
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string as EVERYTHING in the info box, not just the version field. Can you
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show me what I'm doing wrong? Here's my excerpt:
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set extInfo to extended info for thisItem
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set short version of extInfo to "this is a test"
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apply catalog info extInfo to thisItem
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T.J. Mahaffey
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email@hidden
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> Hi folks.
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> I'm trying to use Akua Sweets osax to set the version of a file in it's info
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> box, but I can't seem to figure out how to word it. My attempts all error
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> out, but I know Akua has commands for this and I've looked them over in it's
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> dictionary...
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> Could someone shed some light? here's my latest attempt:
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> set long version of Extended Info Rec of thisItem to ("this is a test" as
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> text)
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> Can someone show me what I'm doing wrong?
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Don't use the "class" extended info rec: you can't do anything with that.
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Instead set a variable to the command 'extended info for':
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set extInfo to extended info for thisItem -- an alias or file
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Then use the 'apply catalog info' to actually change the properties of the
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file:
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set long version of extInfo to "this is a test"
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apply catalog info extInfo to thisItem
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