Re: Now is: Finder tell block
Re: Now is: Finder tell block
- Subject: Re: Now is: Finder tell block
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 12:02:45 -0600
On 3/3/2002 11:31 AM, "Sander Tekelenburg" <email@hidden> wrote:
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tell application "Finder"
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-- do something
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end tell
I think it is important to note that you don't *have* to use a tell block.
You can do this instead:
tell application "Finder" to do something
In a lot of cases it's actually better to do it this way, because a lot of
the time you are using more than just Finder commands inside of the tell
block. If you send non-Finder commands to the Finder, in most cases the
Finder will pass the non-Finder commands on to the system/scripting
additions without interfering. There are two potential problems though:
1) Because you send commands through the Finder, if the Finder is busy or
just happens to be running slowly for some reason (which happens more often
than you would think), your script will run more slowly as a result.
2) The Finder has been known to interfere with non-Finder commands in some
cases; and this kind of problem is usually very hard to diagnose.
So learn to avoid tell blocks whenever possible, and try to use them
judiciously, or you may find yourself scratching your head a lot. ;)
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