Re: BUG: Where's Application Support?
Re: BUG: Where's Application Support?
- Subject: Re: BUG: Where's Application Support?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 06:59:16 -0700
On 6/16/02 2:39 AM, "John Stewart" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Sunday, June 16, 2002, at 12:31 AM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> path to application support folder from user domain
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> (with 'folder' included) also errors here. This time 'folder'
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> is the offending word following the variable 'support'. Still
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> no good.
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Paul,
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I've been finding that with multiple word commands and classes it's a good
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idea to use parenthesis
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to make sure AppleScript doesn't get confused. This seems to be happening in
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more in the OS X
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versions than OS 9 and previous.
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path to (application support) from user domain
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--> alias "OS X:Users:john:Library:Application Support:"
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path to (application support)
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--> alias "OS X:Library:Application Support:"
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Yes, these work. Thank you, John. I had been specifically not doing this
because I didn't want to 'break up' the 'path to...' command. That probably
comes from all those admonitions from Nigel not to parenthesize out the 'as
string' part. ;-)
--
Paul Berkowitz
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