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Re: Stuck trying to use creatorid to control IE with OS 8.1
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Re: Stuck trying to use creatorid to control IE with OS 8.1


  • Subject: Re: Stuck trying to use creatorid to control IE with OS 8.1
  • From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:38:04 +1300

on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 22:43:00 EST email@hidden wrote:

>Alright! I'm 99% there, thanks to you guys educating me on creator-types,
>GetSource commands, and raw event calls. The below script WORKS on Mac OS
>8.5, 8.6, 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2... Except Mac OS 8.1. That's what I'm
>struggling with now:
>
>
>set creaType to "MSIE"
>tell application "Finder" to open application file id creaType
>tell application "Finder" to set appOfMine to (the name of the first process
>whose creator type is "MSIE")
>tell application appOfMine
> set theSource to +event MSIESORC;
> display dialog "source = " & theSource
>end tell
>
>
>After trying a bunch of Applescripts, it appears that Mac OS 8.1 doesn't have
>an "open location" command either (i.e. tell application "Finder" to open
>location "http://www.apple.com";) I've got Internet Explorer 5.1 installed
>on Mac OS 8.1 and it runs, so the browser is definetely there.
>
how about IE's OpenURL
>
>I'm also finding that Mac OS 8.1 will not run the above script because it
>doesn't appear to be able to find Internet Explorer by creator type "MSIE".
>It almost seems like Mac OS 8.1 just never acknowledges IE's existance. I'm
>not sure what to do about that.
>
try...
tell application "Finder" to set appOfMine to (open application file id
"MSIE")'s name

_____________________________ Andy
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