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Re: Newbies Question...


  • Subject: Re: Newbies Question...
  • From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:49:56 +0000

In my message of Friday, 22 February 2002 11:07:18, I wrote:

... with regard to opening a folder-load of folders and aliases to
folders, and turning the resulting windows into pop-ups ...

>The following is a very simple and fast way of achieving what you want,
>though I'm afraid it involves a few non-newbie concepts, such as the
>Finder's ability to do things in bulk, setting by list, and 'telling'
>something other than an application to do something.
>
> tell application "Finder"
> activate -- necessary for setting popups
> close every window
> open {alias files, folders} of folder "Tab Folders "
> -- The only Finder windows now should be the ones just opened
> tell every window to set {popup, pulled open} to {true, false}
> end tell

Here's the deluxe version. It *doesn't* close all the Finder windows
(which you might not want to do). In fact, it doesn't close any of them
and is consequently a little faster - depending on how many windows are
open and how many of these you would have to have re-opened. Furthermore,
it arranges the pop-up tabs in alphabetical order. Personally, I'm
staggered that the 'open' line works:

tell application "Finder"
activate -- necessary for setting popups
set every container window's popup to false
open reverse of (sort {alias files, folders} of folder "Tab Folders
" by name)
tell (container windows 1 thru (count result)) to set {popup, pulled
open} to {true, false}
end tell

NG
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