RE: Droplet for CD
RE: Droplet for CD
- Subject: RE: Droplet for CD
- From: "Sprague, Graham" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:15:20 -0400
Well I have about 150 users to roll this out to and I'm not about to use any
Scripting Additions. It's hard enough to keep their systems updated and
running properly never mind adding Scripting Additions into the mix. Enough
ranting. Ron Bishop posted a work around that seems to work for now. Check
it out if you are interested.
Thanks for your help,
Graham
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From: Paul Berkowitz
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 1:52 PM
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To: Applescript-Users
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Subject: Re: Droplet for CD
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No. The whole reason why 3rd-party osaxen exist is to fill gaps in (or
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occasionally try to do better than) standard AppleScript. Akua Sweets is
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(still) free, and is an indispensable aid to scripting pre-OS X. (I hope
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an
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OS X version is forthcoming.)
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--
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Paul Berkowitz
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> From: "Sprague, Graham" <email@hidden>
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> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:41:20 -0400
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> To: Applescript-Users <email@hidden>, 'Paul
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Berkowitz'
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> Subject: RE: Droplet for CD
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> Is there any way to do this with standard scripting additions?
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>> From: Paul Berkowitz
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>> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 1:15 PM
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>> To: Applescript-Users
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>> Subject: Re: Droplet for CD
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>> On 9/19/01 9:55 AM, "Zavatone, Alex" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> In the old days, Apple referred to any volume > 5 meg as a hard disk.
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I
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>>> don't know what it does to signify a CD but you could proabably check
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to
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>> see
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>>> if the volume size is > 5 meg and the name of the item dragged on is
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the
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>>> same as the root name of that item.
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>>> I guess you could also check to see if it is locked. Then you would
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be
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>>> pretty durn close to a cd.
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>>> - Zav
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>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> From: Sprague, Graham [mailto:email@hidden]
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>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 7:57 AM
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>>> To: 'email@hidden'
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>>> Subject: Droplet for CD
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>>> I need to create a droplet that will only accept a CD. Does anyone
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know
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>> how
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>>> to do this. I tried the following to no avail...
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>>> Any help would be great.
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>> Akua Sweets' 'disk volume info' on some suspected folder or disk:
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>> if volume device kind of (get disk volume info of theVolume) is cd
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>> volume then
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>> --
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>> --
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>> Paul Berkowitz
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