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Re: System version as number (on non-US systems)
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Re: System version as number (on non-US systems)


  • Subject: Re: System version as number (on non-US systems)
  • From: Kai Edwards <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:33:01 +0000

on 16/9/02 8:33 pm, Harald E Brandt at email@hidden wrote:

> +--> Kai Edwards wrote 02-09-16:
>> try
>> tell application "Finder" to set {x, y} to {"", computer "sysv"}
>> on error number -1708 -- event not handled (no AS 1.6 commands in Classic)
>> set {x, y} to {"", 4096}
>> end try
> +-
>
> Precisely this error is what I asked on this list just a few days ago
> with meager response. You say that this simply is because AS 1.6
> can't handle it.

Right. I added the comment just to hint at the reason for the error trap.
However, in my footnotes, I also said this:

>> [3] As mentioned here before, details of much of this stuff - and a great
>> deal more - is available from Bill Cheeseman's excellent AppleScript
>> Sourcebook at: http://www.AppleScriptSourcebook.com

For details about the issue you specifically mention, go to this page:

http://www.AppleScriptSourcebook.com/applescript/applescript160.html#testing

HTH.

Kai

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