File or Alias?
File or Alias?
- Subject: File or Alias?
- From: Pier Kuipers <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:21:41 +0000
I seem to be experiencing intermittent problems with several scripts
that refer to files in the finder. What I mean is, a script that
usually runs without problems may one day decide to produce an error.
For example:
-- Script must be run from the Apple or OSA menu
tell application "Finder"
set theArchive to (selection as alias)
tell application "ApplicationName" to open file theArchive
end tell
As far as I remember, this used to work fine, but now causes an Apple
Event error. The problem is easily rectified by changing the second
tell statement to
tell application "ApplicationName" to open theArchive
in other words, leave out the "file" bit. What is going on? I did
update my system software recently (from 9.0 to 9.0.4), but surely
that shouldn't cause this type of problem?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Pier.
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