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Re: FileMaker Pro, get image by reference
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Re: FileMaker Pro, get image by reference


  • Subject: Re: FileMaker Pro, get image by reference
  • From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 07:11:39 +0000

on Sun, 24 Nov 2002 06:30:09 -0500 Gary Lists wrote:

>On 11/23/02 , Paul Berkowitz wrote something like:
>(yeah, I deleted the reply by accident!)....
>
>~ > remove Jon's commands and restart, then try your script ~
>
>
>Paul, I removed Jon's 2.1.2 (which does not have a 'copy' keyword, but does
>have 'copyFile') from my SA folder and restarted my Mac (OS 9.1/AS 1.6)
>
>The script in FileMaker 5 still works flawlessly, as stated. It's not Jon's.
>
>So, being minimally intrigued, I opened every SA that I have installed and
>clipped the dictionaries. I have now read each one and I find no other
>reference to 'copy' or 'copy file'. (My human reading doesn't mean that
>there isn't something I missed, but I don't think so.)
>
>I have Akua v1.43 installed, and I find 'AkuaCopy' (AkuaCopy alias), which I
>am, of course, not using in my script.
>
>Obviously, in the Finder's dictionary, I find 'copy', which refers to the
>clipboard (with Finder in front) and also 'duplicate' for file objects as
>you described.
>
>Similarly, FileMaker's own dictionary offers 'copy', also referring to the
>clipboard.
>
>
>And also on 11/23/02, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>
>> Or are you actually using some osax which has 'copy file' as a keyword?? (I
>> would hope no osax would ever have such a confusing namespace-conflicting
>> keyword.)
>>
>See above. No.
>>
>> DUPLICATE, not copy, with 'file stringPath' as reference. Since you've been
>> using your script, something is working somehow. But it must be due to
>> silent osax coercions.
>
>So, there is the report of my "investigation". I am not overly concerned
>for my machine, but I do create FM tools for others, so if I were to include
>this script, I'd obviously want it to work under a variety of conditions.
>

FWIW...

tell application "Finder"
activate
copy file "path string" to desktop
end tell

works here under 8.6 with no OSAX, copy compiles as a language keyword when
followed by a file spec. The coercion to alias is superfluous Gary.

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