What the "tell" is going on?
What the "tell" is going on?
- Subject: What the "tell" is going on?
- From: "Gary B. Little" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 07:13:36 -0700
Does anyone know the algorithm the tell statement uses to locate an
application at run time?
Here's my problem. I've got a Fetch-related script that was compiled when
the old Fetch 3.0.3 was one my system. When I upgraded to Fetch 4 and
removed Fetch 3.0.3, the script now asks me "Where is Fetch?" even though
the creator type for Fetch has not changed. Strangely, it even asks me when
Fetch 4 is already running.
Although I can easily recompile the script on my own system, I'd like the
script to work properly regardless of the version of Fetch that someone who
may run my script may have on their system.
How does the tell statement work? Why can't it just look in to the desktop
database to determine where the application is located. I've got a Launch
Application osax that does just that and it works just fine.
Gary