Re: Error-trapping alias properties
Re: Error-trapping alias properties
- Subject: Re: Error-trapping alias properties
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 06:48:17 -0800
On 3/28/02 2:55 AM, "Andy Wylie" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Can you store an alias as a script property, and still find a graceful way
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> to set a new value (via choose file again, e.g.) if the file no longer
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> exists?
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> I know that storing the string file path to the file wouldn't hit this
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> problem, but then it would throw up an error , or dialog if trapped, every
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> time the file is moved or renamed. Is there some way around this?
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I use 'if (get exists alias someFile of application "Finder") = false then'
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or try someFile as alias
Andy, please go back and read my message again. You're not "getting" it.
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Paul Berkowitz
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