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Re: Scripting Startup Disk control panel
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Re: Scripting Startup Disk control panel


  • Subject: Re: Scripting Startup Disk control panel
  • From: Helmut Fuchs <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 23:16:00 +0200

At 13:01 Uhr +0200 29.07.2001, Jan Pieter Kunst wrote:
Andy Wylie (email@hidden) schreef op 29-07-2001 12:28 :

on 29/7/01 9:57 pm, Jan Pieter Kunst at email@hidden wrote:

<snip<
>> tell application "Opstartschijf"
get startup system folder alias
end tell

--> Expected end of line but found application constant or consideration


What am I doing wrong? Mac OS 9.1, AS 1.5.5 (sorry, no Dutch AS 1.6 is yet
in existence).

It doesn't work in the background, tell it to activate.


If I put an "activate" immediately after the "tell application", I get the
exact same error messages ...
The Problem is that "system folder" is also defined in the Standard Additions, seemingly leading to a naming conflict. So you can't compile it in the first place.

The following works for me (and be assured, it IS incredibly awkward):

tell application "Opstartschijf"
activate
set theAlias to +property sysf;
quit
end tell

If all goes well the Variable theAlias should contain what you want. Note two things:
1. the activate is REALLY necessary
2. when you compile this, the term "property" will magically change to "class" - this will
eventually cause big headaches, because when you recompile, it won't work anymore...

Hope I could help a bit...
--
Helmut


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