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Re: Getting a list of applications
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Re: Getting a list of applications


  • Subject: Re: Getting a list of applications
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:55:27 -0800

On 1/31/03 10:04 PM, "Jeffrey Mattox" <email@hidden> wrote:

> I want to display a list of applications for my user to choose from.
> An open-panel shows all files, even non-applications.
>
> Is there a way to generate a list containing just the applications of
> the startup volume? I've tried variations of this with no luck:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> set theApps to (every item whose file type is "APPL")
> of every folder of startup disk
> end tell
>
> Searching the entire volume is likely to be slow, so this may be
> impractical, even if it worked.

Try

choose application -- as alias

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Paul Berkowitz
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