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Re: Applescript in a Nutshell
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Re: Applescript in a Nutshell


  • Subject: Re: Applescript in a Nutshell
  • From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 19:15:07 +1100

The example script is not relevant in OS X. OS X's memory management is
different to OS 9, so the Finder's dictionary has no reference for "largest
free block".

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Matthew Smith

> From: Joey Parshley <email@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:26:17 -0500
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: Applescript in a Nutshell
>
> I am reading this book and tried out the first script. I compiled in OS
> 9 but did not in Jaguar can someone tell me why?
>
> Here is the script
> tell application "Finder"
> activate
> set memblock to (largest free block / 1024 / 1024)
> display dialog "The largest free block is about " & (memblock) &,
> " megabytes."
> end tell
>
> When I try to check the syntax I get the following syntax error and the
> word "free" in the parentheses is highlighted.
>
> "Expected ',' but found identifier."
>
> Does applescripting not carry over into Jaguar? What should I be
> looking at to decipher the error statement? I tried the dictionary for
> Finder and thought I might see something about "free" but no dice.
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