Object types
Object types
- Subject: Object types
- From: email@hidden (Frank Renner)
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:45:07 +0200
Hi,
I am not a very frequent scripter.
Everytime I start with it again after some time, I have a lot of trouble
with complaints like "can4t make ... into ...". When I look into the
application directories, I find strange descriptions like "folder, by
numeric index, by ID, by name". Still I cannot understand why
set the source_folder to choose folder
set item_list to list folder source_folder
works fine and
set the source_folder to folder "New Folder"
set item_list to list folder source_folder
does not. It4s both folders or what?
When someone tells me the solution, I say "aaaahh, it4s so simple". But
sometimes I tried for hours which is pretty much time for a well
experienced programmer who has little trouble with other programming
languages as I would think about myself.
So what is the object type of a folder and how can I make a string with
a pathname to a folder?
Where can I get a type list of all the elements of an applications
directory and how they can be converted into each other?
When I read the beginners documentation, it only tells me about
converting numbers into strings which is not what I need. Is there some
documentation -anywhere- that avoids the trial and error method? Right
now I have to look into lots of code snippets and try many things myself
which would be unneccessary if there was a more comprehensive "catalog"
(or let me keep calling it a "directory") e.g. of the Finder objects and
how they can be used.
frank Renner
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