RE: 9.2.2 Update effects on applescript
RE: 9.2.2 Update effects on applescript
- Subject: RE: 9.2.2 Update effects on applescript
- From: Joe Kelly <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:27:14 -0800
Has anyone submitted a bug report to Apple?
Having subscribed to Open Transport and Carbon email lists, I have become
accustomed to actual Apple engineers responding to developers' questions,
which seems not the case with this list. And that's too bad -- AppleScript
is a very cool and impressive technology, and I hate to see it get
neglected.
joe
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Emmett Gray [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 2:03 PM
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: 9.2.2 Update effects on applescript
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:26:46 -0600, "Brandon Carpenter"
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<email@hidden> wrote:
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>I have been expiriencing problems since my update of 9.2.1
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to 9.2.2. Does
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>anyone know where I can find info on the changes effecting
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applescript?
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Here's what I've discovered, all whys and wherefores aside: AS 1.7
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does not appear to coerce strings into aliases, Finder or no Finder.
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It seems that _all references_ to paths must be coerced by the
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scripter.
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Thus:
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set theFile to "My HD:A folder:A text file"
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set theText to read file theFile
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will fail. This worked under AS 1.6 and earlier.
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You must say:
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set theFile to "My HD:A folder:A text file" as alias
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set theText to read file theFile
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or something similar.
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Please someone enlighten us all if this is not accurate.
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HTH,
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--Emmett
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