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