Re: Stuck trying to use creatorid to control IE with OS 8.1
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: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:04:20 -0800
On 12/14/02 10:17 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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OpenURL works, but only if I put it within the tell application "Internet
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Explorer" block, which prompts the user to locate the app, which is what I
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need to avoid if possible. The way I know of to avoid this is to reference
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IE by creator-type, but for some reason, _only_ on Mac OS 8.1, it refuses to
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acknowledge IE 5.1 as an app of creator type "MSIE" - - - - give me a "no app
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type MSIE error". Perhaps this is due to the way IE 5.1 installs - - - just
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drag-and-drop onto the drive. Perhaps OS 8.1 needs the "MS First-Run" type
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of initialization that occured with earlier IE's to "register" MSIE as a
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creator type?
Have you tried Andy's suggestion of getting the Finder to open it?
tell application "Finder"
set explorerPath to (application file id "MSIE") as string
open alias explorerPath -- launches IE
end tell
tell application explorerPath
<<event MSIESORC>>
end tell
Does that not work either? Once it's running, the script will always find
it, I'm pretty sure.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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