Re: Calling an application
Re: Calling an application
- Subject: Re: Calling an application
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:53:32 -0600
on 2/11/2001 5:25 PM, JollyRoger at email@hidden wrote:
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>> Why doesn't this result in the "Where is app?" dialog on your particular
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>> setup? Because the Finder was able to locate an app a) with that creator
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>> and b) with the same name as the app you made reference to when you compiled
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>> the script. If either of those changed, however, even the script you
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>> provided will display the "Where is app?" dialog.
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> a) yes b) no, I tested (AS1.3.7 OS8.6) deleting, moving (to other disks) and
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> renaming the app which caused no problem for either method apart from the
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> aforementioned -1713 for double tell.
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Now move that script to another machine, and watch it break (display the
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"Where is app?" dialog). :)
I neglected to specify that in order to fail, the other machine should
either (a) not have the application on it, or (b) have the app named
differently than in the script.