Re: Complete newbie
Re: Complete newbie
- Subject: Re: Complete newbie
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 22:52:36 -0700
On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 09:07 PM, Monee C. Kidd wrote:
open: Open an object.
open a list of alias -- list of objects
What am I supposed to *do* with that? I tried
open file "Macintosh HD:Users:imani08:Documents:Test"
and I get the error
--> TextEdit got an error: file "Macintosh
HD:Users:imani08:Documents:Test" doesn't understand the open message.
Unless Applescript is doing something, you have to tell who to do what.
So, in this case, try this:
tell application "Text Edit"
activate
Open alias "Macintosh HD:Users:imani08:Documents:Test"
end tell
This will launch Text Edit if it is not running, make it the front
application, and then Text Edit will open the file.
Instead of hard coding the file to be opened, you can put this code
before the tell statement:
set document_to_be_opened to item 1 of (choose file with prompt "Choose
the file to open" of type {"text"})
This will let the user choose the file to open.
You can download the Applescript Language guide in PDF form at
<
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/pdf/
AppleScriptLanguageGuide.pdf> or read it in HTML form at
<
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/
interapplicationcomm/AppleScript/AppleScriptLangGuide/index.html>. It
is quite a bit outdated, referring to version 1.3.7; the current
version is 1.9.1, with version 2.0 available in beta (a very solid
beta) for OS X.
Release notes for versions 1.7 through 1.9.1 are available at
<
http://www.apple.com/applescript/release_notes/>
--Michelle
--
Give Peace A Chance.
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