Re: Path to documents folder
Re: Path to documents folder
- Subject: Re: Path to documents folder
- From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:01:20 -0800
On Sunday, January 28, 2001, at 09:19 AM, applescript-users-
email@hidden wrote:
on 1/28/01 11:45 AM, Michelle Steiner at email@hidden wrote:
Path to At Ease documents folder
--> alias "Sucia:Documents:"
Path to At Ease applications folder
--> alias "Sucia:Applications (Mac OS 9):"
[...]
I found these using ResEdit. They probably should have been named
something
else in Mac OS 9.1, since At Ease has been replaced by what? -- the
"File
Manager"?
Nope; they in 9.1 just as you wrote them.
I don't follow you. What do you mean by "they"? If you mean At Ease, it
isn't in the Mac OS 9.1 system Tome file, and it wasn't installed on my
machine by the 9.1 updater. (But maybe that's because it wasn't on my
machine in the first place.)
In any event, the Documents and Applications (Mac OS 9) folders aren't
just
creature of At Ease any longer, so these "special folder" parameters to
the
Path To command don't seem to make sense any longer with the words "At
Ease"
in them.
I agree with the demise of "At Ease" itself, the names don't seem to
make sense. But because 'document' is a Standard Suite class (and
'documents' its plural), and 'folder' is a common Finder class, the
AppleScript compiler can get confused by a class called 'documents
folder'. That's why there's a word in front of it: 'At Ease documents'
or 'At Ease documents folder'. So we need to retain some marker term
in front of 'documents' to keep the term for the Documents folder from
getting confused with the document class. I suppose with the migration
to X we could change it to 'user document folder'.
Chris