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Re: Unresolved aliases to arglist of a droplet
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Re: Unresolved aliases to arglist of a droplet


  • Subject: Re: Unresolved aliases to arglist of a droplet
  • From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:17:05 +0100

Richard Morton a icrit:

On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 10:35 PM, Axel Luttgens wrote:

Doug McNutt wrote:

I'm pretty sure it was impossible to pass alias files to a droplet in OS9 but has it been repaired in OS neXt?

Tried here with OSX 10.1.5 - AS 1.8
Dropped aliases seem to be immediately resolved.


I think this is the intended behaviour of aliases and that it's built into the Alias Manager. Nothing to do with AS and not a bug. ResEd is about the only app I can think of that will offer to open alias files. Otherwise they get resolved because that's what's supposed to happen.



I'm not sure this is fully correct.
After all, when you trash an alias file in the Finder, you aren't trashing the original file... ;-)
The same way, AppleScript is able to access alias files for themselves. For example, "info for" lets you know if you are manipulating an alias file or not; or the Finder's class "alias file" has an "original item" property.

The Alias Manager just provides the tools to create, update and resolve alias files. It is up to the application that uses it to decide wether it should always resolve aliases for its users or not.

A word processor (for example) may reasonably always resolve aliases. It isn't intended to edit alias files, isn't it?
ResEdit, on the contrary, must allow the user to edit the alias file instead of the original file.

In my opinion, AppleScript should always allow to at least make the distinction between an alias file and its original file, and thus to act accordingly.
In that sense, immediate resolution of alias files dragged on a droplet, without any clue on what happened, seems to be somewhat excessive.
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