Strangeness with installing Applescript Guidebooks on 9.2.1
Strangeness with installing Applescript Guidebooks on 9.2.1
- Subject: Strangeness with installing Applescript Guidebooks on 9.2.1
- From: Charles Arthur <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 21:40:43 +0100
I gotta new iBook. Using 9.2.1 because X annoys me. (When there's a system
font option which allows 9pt unaliased Chicago, I'm there, though.)
Trying to install the Applescript Guidebooks, which have scripts to install
a series of help files, the scripts - written by Sal, no less - bombed on
the following piece of error-catching code that all of them have:
--
set error_log to ((path to desktop) as text) & ((day of (current date)) as
string) & ,
((time of (current date)) as string) -- was (path to
desktop) sted ("Mac HD:Desktop Folder:")
--
it's a single line; eliminate any breaks.
I got the error message "Finder got an error: can't make <<class desk>>
into an item."
WTF?
I had to paste the path to my startup disk desktop folder into each, which
I didn't particularly mind, but it would have been a big leap for non-AS
folk. Is there something weird here? I notice that since I have both 9 and
X on my system, there are *two* Finders both openable by Script Editor (in
9), so presumably by AScript. Would that make a difference?
Charles
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