Re: Set Selection with a list of items
Re: Set Selection with a list of items
- Subject: Re: Set Selection with a list of items
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 15:15:31 -0700
At 11:11 -0700 10/6/2001, Michelle Steiner wrote:
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On 10/6/01 11:05 AM, Irwin Poche <email@hidden> wrote:
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>Now I know why I was stumped. What never dawned on me was that my single
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>item command had "items" in it but the list form had neither "items" nor
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>"file" in it.
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>I thought that adding "item" to the assign statement would do it. Either
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>"item" or "file" attempts to resolve at compile time...
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Um, no. They don't.
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> set selectionItems to {,
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> {item "Note Pad File", item "Scrapbook File"}, ,
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> "Main Identity", ,
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> "Hosts"}
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>It looks like I have no choice but to use a loop to either set up the an
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>appropriate list -or- to set each item individually. Do you agree ?
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I don't know. I'm not sure what you're trying to do or how you're trying
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to do it, other than select a number of icons in a folder.
This worked for me in Mac OS 9. (Note...if the folder isn't already open,
substitute
reveal them
for
select them
...and I'm retyping since I'm using Eudora in Mac OS X 10.1 on another machine.
tell application "Finder"
set theFolder to systemFolder
tell theFolder -- this just saves a little typing if there are more files
set them to get {"Note Pad File", "Scrapbook File"}
--the "get" isn't really needed, but this is a rare case where I'd
use it
end tell
select them
end tell
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA