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Re: tell (alias to application)
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Re: tell (alias to application)


  • Subject: Re: tell (alias to application)
  • From: Roger_Jolly <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:24:25 +0200

Might I suggest:

Tell application "Finder" to set Indesign to application file id "InDn" as
string

And then

Tell application Indesign &c

Should work, does for me.

Roger


on 09-07-2002 17:22, ml_mikega at email@hidden wrote:

> hello,
>
> i have a applescript with many times
> - tell application "InDesign 2.0" ...
>
> so now i want to call InDesign without version-number in the
> tell-statement
> i tried
> - set indesign to alias "full_path_to_indesign_inserted"
> and then
> - tell application indesign
>
> but i got an error.
> which way is the best (or one of the best ;-)
> to avoid version-number in tell-statements
>
> ps: applications like "Finder" or "FileMaker Pro" are w.o.
> version-number so why InDesign not ?
>
> MacOSX-10.1.5, AppleScript-1.8.3
>
> thanx,
> mike
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