Re: Some package questions
Re: Some package questions
- Subject: Re: Some package questions
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:32:22 +0000
- Mac-eudora-version: 5.3a9
At 8:32 pm +0100 26/11/02, Thomas wrote:
- why does the information command on a package say "foler:true"
while when you use a package it's more as a file than as a folder.
That would be more logic in my script if package would say "I'm not
a folder".
There are different sorts of packages. All of them are essentially
folders -- some look like folders and some look like yellow packages
and some have proprietary icons.
Select a few in turn in the Finder and see what this gives:
tell application "Finder"
(item 1 of (get selection)) as string
{class, kind, file type, creator type, folder, properties} of item result
end tell
--{"Installer package", "pmkr", "pkg1", folder "Apache2" of folder
"Downloads1102" of folder "jd" of folder "Users" of startup disk of
application "Finder"}
--{"Application", "APPL", "CSOm", folder "Applications" of startup
disk of application "Finder"}
--{"Mac OS X Preference Pane", "BNDL", "????", folder
"PreferencePanes" of folder "Library" of startup disk of application
"Finder"}
- is it possible to call for package info (true or false) within a
Finder block, just to get this information (and don't use the info
command which is slower because it asks for a lot of information).
I doubt if it makes much difference, but info for will give you a
different set of properties from Finder properties. Look up 'item'
in the Finder dictionary.
- Is it possible to ask for the file type within a Finder block AND
if the item asked is a folder, it returns "" ? I don't manage to
have this to work, the demand for file type on a folder returns an
error contrary to the info command which returns "".
'file type' will never be folder. Use 'kind' instead
tell application "Finder"
(item 1 of (get selection)) as string
if kind of item result is "Folder" then beep
end tell
This will not beep for a package.
JD
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