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Re: folder path of open finder window?
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Re: folder path of open finder window?


  • Subject: Re: folder path of open finder window?
  • From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:13:15 +0100

In your message of 16/8/2001 15:52 BST, you wrote:

>On 8/16/01 1:35 AM, Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
>wrote:
>
>> tell application "Finder"
>> set fred to folder of front container window as string
>> end tell
>>
>>I don't know why this works. My Finder dictionary doesn't mention that
>>windows have a 'folder' property.
>
>Window doesn't, but container window has a "container" property, and AS
>apparently interprets "folder" in your script as "container"

Thanks, Michelle. That sounds plausible. But yet, the script also works
with 'window' in place of 'container window' - except of course that any
kind of window is then considered. If you do a 'Get Info' on a folder,
the 'folder' of the information window will turn out to be that folder.

NG


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