Re: path to At Ease
Re: path to At Ease
- Subject: Re: path to At Ease
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:12:22 -0500
This Path To including At Ease appeared in OS 8.1's install of AppleScript,
as from what I can tell.
At Ease is not part of OpenDoc, as you were guessing, Philippe. It was (is)
a multi-user management system. We used to use it in my school's Mac lab,
and it provides an easy way to present tabbed interfaces to students, which
were "Finder replacements". They could not access the Finder, but only the
icons on their At Ease tabs. Multi-user features of OS9 stem from At Ease,
of course.
It is part of the Standard Additions 'path to' list of folders (I published
that list here yesterday, as a reminder). In later versions of SA, it
appears to be "left out" of the list but still works fine. In an old
version of SA, I did find the item listed. After some flipping through old
material and looking at dated board posts...
Here is a brief exchange from March 2001 on the AppleScript FR board,
regarding the same issue (this is in French, so sorry if not everyone can
read it...you will see the list of Path To legal objects as per OS 8.1
however, which you will be able to read.)
>
> Si certains "path" s'y retrouvent logiquement,
>
> le chemin vers des dossiers spiciaux tel que "Applications (Mac OS 9)" est
>
> indiqui avec une fonction ancienne (At Ease applications !!) mais non
>
> documenti dans l'OSAX "Compliments standard" de MacOS 9.1.
[Note that the poster is saying that the Standard Additions seems to have no
documentation on the At Ease items in OS9.1. ]
>
> C'est pour la compatibiliti, je suppose...
>
> At ease a iti remplaci par le multi-utilisateurs sous OS 9.
>
>
>
> D'ailleurs ce qui me semble remarquable et dangereux c'est qu'en 8.1 :
>
> path to At Ease applications folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Encodages texte:
>
>
<clipped....: Here is a list of those folders special names...you see they
are, indeed, the same across language systems.>
>
> apple menu items folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Dossier Menu Pomme:
>
> application support folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Support aux applications:
>
> At Ease applications folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Encodages texte:
>
> At Ease documents folder --> HD:DOCUMENTS:
>
> control panels folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Tableaux de bord:
>
> control strip modules folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Modules barre des
>
> riglages:
>
> current application --> [application/fichier du script]
>
> "current user folder" --> -1700
>
> desktop folder --> HD:Desktop Folder:
>
> "desktop pictures folder" --> -1700
>
> editors folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Iditeurs:
>
> extensions folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Extensions:
>
> "Folder Action scripts" --> -1700
>
> fonts folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Polices:
>
> frontmost application --> [l'application de premier plan]
>
> "frontmost" --> -1700
>
> help folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Aide:
>
> "help" --> -35
>
> internet plugins folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Modules externes Internet:
>
> "keychain folder" --> -1700
>
> "launcher items folder" --> -1700
>
> me --> [application/fichier du script]
>
> modem scripts folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Scripts de modem:
>
> preferences folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Prifirences:
>
> printer descriptions folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Descriptions
>
> d'imprimantes:
>
> printer drivers folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Gestionnaires d'imprimantes:
>
> printmonitor folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Impressions en attente:
>
> "script folder" --> -1700
>
> scripting additions folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Compliments de pilotage:
>
> shared libraries folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Bibliothhques partagies:
>
> shutdown items folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Ouverture ` l'extinction:
>
> "speakable items" --> -1700
>
> startup disk --> HD:
>
> startup items folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Ouverture au dimarrage:
>
> stationery folder --> HD:Modhles:
>
> "stationery" --> -1700
>
> system folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:
>
> "system preferences" --> -1700
>
> temporary items folder --> HD:Iliments temporaires:
>
> trash folder --> HD:Trash:
>
> "users folder" --> -1700
>
> voices folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Voix:
From the AS 1.5.5 for OS 9.1 notes, you can see that it still remains as
part of the Path To command as of January 2001 but that it will return a
very different (than expected if you use At Ease) folder...but I do not
recall from our lab that there were ever any problems scripting the path to
At Ease...that's exactly how we allowed students to move items that they
didn't normally have access to...via AppleScript...to avoid Finder access.
>
> Two of the "special folders" recognized by the Path To command in the
>
> Standard Additions scripting addition are still named "At Ease applications
>
> folder" and "At Ease documents folder", although At Ease has been eliminated
>
> (or renamed) in favor of the more general multiuser capability. "Path to At
>
> Ease applications folder" returns an alias to the Applications (Mac OS 9)
>
> folder under Mac OS 9.1, and "path to At Ease documents folder" returns an
>
> alias to the Documents folder, both at the root level of your startup disk.
>
> [1/28/01]
And a general note about Path To commands that is still very useful to
remember:
>
> A number of users have reported that the Path To command in the Standard
>
> Additions scripting addition has problems when invoked inside a Finder tell
>
> block, at least with respect to the Startup Disk special folder. Workarounds
>
> include moving the Path To command outside the Finder tell block and using
>
> the Finder's own command for obtaining the path to the startup disk.
On or about 1/6/03 3:16 AM, Philippe Gruchet wrote:
>
From Paul Berkowitz:
>
>
if you're not on an English-language system, "Documents" won't help you.
>
If you want to make sure your script will work on any system, you'd use
>
the generic 'path to' for the Documents folder instead.
>
>
set theDest to (path to At Ease documents folder as string)
>
****
>
>
Yes, this generic 'path to' works all over language systems.
>
>
tell application "Finder"
>
set theDest to (path to At Ease documents folder as string)
>
make at theDest with properties {name:{"foo"}, file type:"ttro", file
>
creator:"ttxt"} new file
>
reveal theDest & "Test"
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end tell
>
>
>
Paul, could you tell us where have you found this 'At ease' statement?
>
Sounds like an old "OpenDoc" component...
>
>
Thanks to enlighten us.
>
>
Regards,
>
Philippe Gruchet/SVM Mac
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Gary
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