Re: Clipboard use
Re: Clipboard use
- Subject: Re: Clipboard use
- From: Kai Edwards <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 03:23:11 +0000
on Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:47:29 -0400, email@hidden wrote:
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I need to take the value that is returned when a user chooses a folder via
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a prompt and copy it to the clipboard. I've tried doing it this way:
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set dpath to choose folder with prompt "locate Data Folder"
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copy dpath to clipboard
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However I get an error saying "can't set clipboard to alias". I've tried
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adding an AS STRING to the code to return the value as a string instead of
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as an alias or folder to no avail.
This works for me:
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set the clipboard to ((choose folder) as string)
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Kai
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