Re: Forcing 'tell app' to use carbon, rather than classic app/
Re: Forcing 'tell app' to use carbon, rather than classic app/
- Subject: Re: Forcing 'tell app' to use carbon, rather than classic app/
- From: Bill Bug <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:42:23 -0500
Many thanks to all for the suggested solutions to this problem.
The one that worked best for me came from: Deivy Petrescu
<email@hidden>
"Bill, a fast answer,
try appending ".app" at the end of the tell call. It might not work
sometimes, but you can use AS to fix this. Also, most apps in X are in
the Applications Folder. Last case Unix to do the dirty trick, try
"locate" in do shell script."
Appending ".app" worked like a charm.
Many thanks to all.
Cheers,
Bill Bug
Subject: Re: Forcing 'tell app' to use carbon, rather than classic
app/Erratum
To: email@hidden
From: Philippe GRUCHET <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:42:43 +0100
From: cassj <email@hidden>
> I wrote this little script that will return the 'kind' attribute of
> any file you choose:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> activate
> set filechosen to choose file
> set filekind to kind of filechosen
> display dialog "filekind: " & filekind
> end tell
>
> I'm not saying this is THE solution to Bill's situation, but it seems
> like at least one way to distinguish between a "Classic Application"
> and an "Application".
Absolutely!
Moreover, 'info for' (as I suggested) doesn't send back the kind
attribute of an item.
So, my previous example should have been:
tell application "Finder" to kind of application file id "emal" --
(Mail)
-- Result for a Carbon or Cocoa app: "Application"
tell application "Finder" to kind of application file id "ogle" --
(PictureViewer)
-- Result for a PPC app: "Application Classic"
From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
> I don't know if this will be of any help, but in case you don't know,
> suppose your script has sorted out what the full path of the wanted
> application is, then I think that you can use the full path (instead
> of the app's name) as the parameter of "tell application".
So, the examples become:
tell application "Finder" to kind of (application file id "emal" as
alias) --> return full path and "Application"
tell application "Finder" to kind of (application file id "ogle" as
alias) --> return full path and "Application Classic"
We can always get some more information via the 'info for' instruction:
tell application "Finder" to info for (application file id "emal" as
alias)
Best regards,
Philippe Gruchet/SVM Mac
VNU Publications France
http://svmmac.vnunet.fr
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Bill Bug
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Computer Vision Laboratory for Vertebrate Brain Mapping
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