Re: Scripts no longer work in 9.2.2
Re: Scripts no longer work in 9.2.2
- Subject: Re: Scripts no longer work in 9.2.2
- From: Jolly Roger <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 16:19:13 -0600
On 12/6/2001 10:06 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 12/6/01 7:52 AM, "Jolly Roger" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On 12/6/2001 8:57 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> The advantage is that 'path to' now works bug-free in Finder tell blocks, I
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> This is a confusing statement to me, Paul. Why should the "path to" command
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There's a bug (yet another Finder bug). I thought everyone knew about it. If
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you put
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tell application "Finder"
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path to desktop
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end tell
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at least in all earlier OS's up to 9.2.1 (I don't have 9.2.2 yet), you get
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the path to the startup disk, not the desktop. This was always the main
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argument used for not putting osax commands into the Finder, although it's
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the only buggy one I know. I kept expecting other bugs to turn up, so i
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usually just avoided putting any 'path to' command into the Finder,
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particularly as it had its own "special folders" anyway.
Thanks for the explanation. I was not aware of that particular bug. (I
avoid Finder tell blocks like the plague ;).