Re: Saving a temp file?
Re: Saving a temp file?
- Subject: Re: Saving a temp file?
- From: bill <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:28:24 +0800
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Making good progress on my app in AppleScript studio, but have run into
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another roadblock. I need to save a temporary file (that I'll alter in
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another handler) without any user intervention. I need to overwrite it
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if it exists already without bugging the user.
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I'm taking a cue from another app and saving the file to
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/private/tmp/tempFile, but I get an error if the file already exists.
Hope this handler can help you, it's in the "Photo Summary.scpt", you can
download the iPhoto script from Apple.
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http://a1392.g.akamai.net/7/1392/51/43f8b9d4f33a94/www.apple.com/applescrip
t/iphoto/archive.sit>
Set the append_data to false will overwrite the file.
on write_to_file(this_data, target_file, append_data)
try
set the target_file to the target_file as text
set the open_target_file to ,
open for access file target_file with write permission
if append_data is false then ,
set eof of the open_target_file to 0
write this_data to the open_target_file starting at eof
close access the open_target_file
return true
on error
try
close access file target_file
end try
return false
end try
end write_to_file
By the way, you could also try this one, to get a place for temporary items
:
path to temporary items folder as string
Have fun :)
bill
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