Re: closing all but very specific windows
Re: closing all but very specific windows
- Subject: Re: closing all but very specific windows
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:09:54 +0100
"Anthony Adachi" wrote on 2 Apr 2002 18:38:24 -0500:
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Does anyone know if it's possible to use the Finder's filtered 'whose'
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clause to close all windows except those of specific items even if there
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are other items which have the same names that we do want to close?
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What I mean is, let say for example you wish to keep a particular folder
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open all the time (by the way it doesn't have to be a folder as it could be
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any Finder item but let say for the sake of argument it is a folder's
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window). You don't want that folder's window to be closed by a close all
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command. However, there may be other Finder items/folders which have the
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same name as the folder you wish to keep open.
[...]
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What follows are just a few examples of which I tried...
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property items_toKeepOpen_paths : {(alias ((path to startup disk as string)
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& "cF:k2:"))}
This works with Mac OS 9.2.1:
property items_toKeepOpen_paths : {(alias ((path to startup disk as
string) & "cF:k2:"))}
tell application "Finder"
open items_toKeepOpen_paths -- bring the windows to the front
close (windows whose index > (count (result as list)))
end tell
NG
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