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 14:55:46 -0500
On or about 1/6/03 3:16 AM, Philippe Gruchet wrote:
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From Paul Berkowitz:
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if you're not on an English-language system, "Documents" won't help you.
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If you want to make sure your script will work on any system, you'd use
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the generic 'path to' for the Documents folder instead.
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set theDest to (path to At Ease documents folder as string)
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Yes, this generic 'path to' works all over language systems.
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tell application "Finder"
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set theDest to (path to At Ease documents folder as string)
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make at theDest with properties {name:{"foo"}, file type:"ttro", file
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creator:"ttxt"} new file
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reveal theDest & "Test"
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end tell
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Paul, could you tell us where have you found this 'At ease' statement?
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Sounds like an old "OpenDoc" component...
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Thanks to enlighten us.
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Regards,
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Philippe Gruchet/SVM Mac
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.)
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> Si certains "path" s'y retrouvent logiquement,
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> le chemin vers des dossiers spiciaux tel que "Applications (Mac OS 9)" est
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> indiqui avec une fonction ancienne (At Ease applications !!) mais non
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> 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. ]
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> C'est pour la compatibiliti, je suppose...
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> At ease a iti remplaci par le multi-utilisateurs sous OS 9.
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> D'ailleurs ce qui me semble remarquable et dangereux c'est qu'en 8.1 :
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> path to At Ease applications folder --> HD:Dossier Systhme:Encodages texte:
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[Long Message with Folder Descriptions Rejected for Length...reposting next
section...]
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Gary
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