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Re: opening a .app bundle
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Re: opening a .app bundle


  • Subject: Re: opening a .app bundle
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:46:56 -0700

On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 04:37 AM, Frank Blome wrote:

is there a way, to open an application bundle (like MyApplication.app) with AppleScript?

That depends a bit on what you mean by "open". If you mean you want to open a Finder window on the package (a la "Show Package Contents"), then no, though if you're willing to limit yourself to application packages, you can get pretty close. For example:

tell application "Finder"
tell folder "Applications" of the startup disk
open folder "Address Book.app"
-- fails; can't get folder "Address Book.app" of ...
open application file "Address Book.app"
-- launches the app; not what we want.

So far, we're out of luck -- the Finder insists that "Address Book.app" is an application file, not a folder, and won't let us use it as one. However, it still has folder-like elements, so if we rely on application packages always having a "Contents" folder...

open folder "Contents" of application file "Address Book.app"
-- aha!
end tell
end tell

If you just want to grub around inside the package, use file objects and commands as you normally would -- AppleScript doesn't really care about the package-ness of a folder. For example...

list folder file ((path to startup disk as string) & "Applications:Address Book.app:")
--> {"Contents"}


--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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