Re: Parameters for "path to" Command
Re: Parameters for "path to" Command
- Subject: Re: Parameters for "path to" Command
- From: Kai Edwards <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:58:23 +0000
on Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:25:59 -1000, Reinhold Penner <email@hidden>
wrote:
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> Of course, this still won't tell you the four-character codes for the
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> more obscure ones (or the ones we haven't gotten around to defining);
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> for that, you need to read Folders.h.
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is there any chance we can get a "container of path to me" (e.g.,
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"cp2m") without asking the Finder for it? AFAIC, path to me always
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requires cumbersome additional string processing, since in 99.99% of
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cases, what I really want to know is the path to the enclosing folder.
Reinhold,
I hesitate to suggest this, since your experience in AppleScript matters is
quite apparent - but won't this produce what you want on your system?...
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":" as alias
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IIRC, this was broken in AS 1.7 but I believe it may work in earlier and
later versions. (I suspect you're working in OS X / AS 1.8).
HTH.
Kai
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