Re: Overloading Additions
Re: Overloading Additions
- Subject: Re: Overloading Additions
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 21:40:07 -0700
On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 09:25 PM, Brian J. Geiger wrote:
It's late, I'm working on some scripts for our production workflow,
and I thought it might be nice to post a question about something that
I didn't need immediately, but might be kinda cool and ultimately
rewarding from a learning perspective.
Is there any way to overload a scripting addition command? (He asks,
expecting the answer 'no'). The thing that came to mind was that it
would be super-keen to be able to make custom paths for the path to
command. For example, I could have a 'path to "Current Ad PDFs"' in
my script, and it would return the path I want. I know there are
other ways to accomplish this, but it would be nice to use the same
terminology.
So, is this possible? Is it dumb? Is it both?
In your script just overload the command:
on path to (theObject)
set x to ""
set x to (continue path to theObject) as string
set x to x & "somename.txt"
return x
end path to
path to (desktop folder)
--
If you need the "real" one, call it like:
set y to AppleScript's path to theObject
Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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