Re: 'application' in OS X
Re: 'application' in OS X
- Subject: Re: 'application' in OS X
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:47:54 +0100
At 7:34 +0100 19/11/01, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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I have spent weeks on a set of scripts, only to come adrift today on the
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shoals of OS X's most peculiar and perilous handling of 'application'.
I would have thought that using pure text paths would eliminate any problem.
On Classic at least, you can use the full path name for a "tell application
theApp" as well as to "tell Finder to open theApp".
Obviously AppleScript does very knowledgeable and useful things out of
aliases to apps, at the risk of making things unclear sometimes.
Emmanuel