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Re: Open a Movie from AppleScript?
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Re: Open a Movie from AppleScript?


  • Subject: Re: Open a Movie from AppleScript?
  • From: Steve Savery <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:46:10 +0000

You're so close!

If you want to code the exact path as below, just remove the 'plaurens:' from the beginning of the open command line. Other than that it should work just fine, so long as the file stays where it is and the path doesn't change (but I suspect you already know that).

I'm also having fun with Clicker. The developer deserves an award!

Steve

On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 05:28 pm, (s) Peter Laurens wrote:

Hi all,

I'm new to this group, but have developed an interest in AppleScript since the release of the Ericsson Clicker for OSX (http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Clicker/index.html).

What I would like to do is open a movie (Quicktime) by calling its path in AppleScript - here is my current (unworking) attempt -

tell application "Quicktime Player"
activate
open "plaurens:Macintosh HD:Users:peterlaurens:Movies:DivX Movies:Contact"
end tell

Which should tell the movie 'Contact' to open in uicktime right? I've tried a lot of alternatives, such as 'open location' 'open file' 'tell Application "Finder"' etc etc but no joy.

What am I doing wrong?

-Peter
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