Re: OS X test for Class Folder...continues
Re: OS X test for Class Folder...continues
- Subject: Re: OS X test for Class Folder...continues
- From: Tim <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:38:29 -0500
At 8:46 AM -0800, on 1/28/2002, you wrote:
christian vick chortled:
If you coerce the path reference to a string, you can test for an folder by
asking for the colon at the end:
Set ThePath to (alias foo as string)
If ThePath ends with ":" then display dialog "this is a folder!" buttons
"OK"
Actually, won't work. Can't coerce this into a string, either as a direct
reference, or as a drop application.
on open thisCD
set ThePath to thisCD as string
if ThePath ends with ":" then
display dialog thisCD buttons "OK"
else
set myName to thisCD
display dialog "yubba" buttons "OK"
end if
end open
Can't get that into a string to test to see if it's a folder
This test works, thanks to Arthur Knapp's use of (as alias as string)
on open thisCD
set thePath to thisCD as text
if (thePath as alias as string) ends with ":" then
display dialog thisCD as text buttons "OK"
else
set myName to thisCD
display dialog "yubba" buttons "OK"
end if
end open
Now, if you can squeeze that into a larger script that grabs the file
info, but branches into a subfolder when the above test is true to
grab all the file info from THAT folder... :-)
Tim
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