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Re: Clipboard use
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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:

> I need to take the value that is returned when a user chooses a folder via
> a prompt and copy it to the clipboard. I've tried doing it this way:
> set dpath to choose folder with prompt "locate Data Folder"
> copy dpath to clipboard
>
> However I get an error saying "can't set clipboard to alias". I've tried
> adding an AS STRING to the code to return the value as a string instead of
> 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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