RE: Finder scripting: OS 9 vs OS X
RE: Finder scripting: OS 9 vs OS X
- Subject: RE: Finder scripting: OS 9 vs OS X
- From: "Fox, Christopher B" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:10:57 -0400
John:
This coersion to a string fails on my machine with a type descriptor
error. Nor can I coerce to an alias.
Christopher Fox
Senior Support Technician
Solicitations IT
Capital One
cel: 804-301-4117
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From: John Delacour
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Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:36 PM
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: Finder scripting: OS 9 vs OS X
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At 11:46 am -0400 15/8/02, Fox, Christopher B wrote:
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>Why does the following script work fine in Mac OS 9.2.2 (AS 1.8.3), but
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fail
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>in Mac OS X 10.1.5?
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>tell application "Finder"
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>set theFiles to every file of (choose folder)
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>repeat with aFile in theFiles
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I can't answer definitively because my G4 in in hospital till Monday, but
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in the short time I've been using OS X I've noticed that the Finder's
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typing of files has changed and it seems you can't coerce a file reference
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directly to an alias.
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What I have been doing is something along the lines of
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...
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repeat with f in fList
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set f to "" & f -- convert to string
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set f to alias f
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set fInfo to info for f ...
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It might not be exactly that, but if you step through, you will find a
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sequence of coercions that will work in either environment.
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JD
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