Re: Error-trapping alias properties
Re: Error-trapping alias properties
- Subject: Re: Error-trapping alias properties
- From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:34:38 +1200
on 29/3/02 1:39 PM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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On 3/28/02 3:49 PM, "Andy Wylie" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I wasn't clear and the examples were wrong sorry. The key seems to be 'as
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> string'
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Right. The point is that I want to store the result as alias to allow the
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user to move the file around without having to find it again.
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see [1]
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But storing an alias in a script property causes an error - with absolutely no
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opportunity to reset anything - if the user then copies the script to another
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computer.
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I can't test copying the script to another computer
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(I thought it would do the same thing if you trash the file and empty the
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trash, too, but will test in OS X later to see what's going on there.)
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I don't understand, under 8.6 the 3 examples I gave all work if the file is
trashed.
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I do not want to save the property as a string file path. That would make you
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reset every time you moved the file.
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[1]the examples I gave all use 'choose file' to set the property, does that
not return an alias under os x?
_____________________________ Andy
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