Re: [XPOST] Universal or general path to desktop?
Re: [XPOST] Universal or general path to desktop?
- Subject: Re: [XPOST] Universal or general path to desktop?
- From: David Graham <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 08:55:53 -0700
Mike,
PLEASE if you are going to cross-post to more than one mailing list,
you need to prefix your subject with the customary [XPOST]. It's
generally bad form to x-post because if you post a question on one list
people may still be trying to provide assistance when the answer has
already been given elsewhere.
On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 11:21 PM, MR wrote:
Thanks Ben and Malcolm,
but I don't see how that will help. A ((path to desktop folder as
string)) will be different for every desktop. e.g. the example I gave
specific to my desktop is
"Macintosh HD: users:Mike:desktop:PDFfiles:"
whereas the path to another desktop might be
"Payables HD:users:Linda:desktop:PDFfiles:"
You wanted something that would provide the path to a specific file on
the current desktop for the logged-in user, right? Well that's
precisely what the script provides for you. You should actually test it
and you'll see that it solves your problem.
The only exception that I'll add to Ben's snippet is a trailing colon
":". In your initial example your path ended at 'fileondesktop' which
implies that it is a file, not a directory. If it is, in fact, a
directory then you'll need the following:
set sourceFolder to ((path to desktop folder as string) &
"fileondesktop:") as string
Also, where is testing for current system version going to help? I
already test for current platform to test for OSX or OS9.2.
The assumption is that if the script must be tweaked for different OS
versions, you can test for it and run the appropriate one as needed.
That said, this snippet should work on all recent versions of
AppleScript.
I need to be able to point the script to a folder that is already on
each desktop (PDFfiles) so that following scripts can put PDF files
into that file. I've got it working on my computer. Now I need it to
work on any desktop that has a folder with that name.
Test it and let us know if it's not working correctly.
--
david m graham
619.322.9698
http://homepage.mac.com/davidgraham/
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