Re: Get a list of applications
Re: Get a list of applications
- Subject: Re: Get a list of applications
- From: Kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 01:27:56 +0100
on Mon, 7 Jul 2003 00:04:52 +0100, John Delacour wrote:
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At 11:34 pm +0100 6/7/03, Kai wrote:
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> This works in OS 9 (all one line):
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> tell application "Finder" to set appList to name of (a reference to entire
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> contents of (path to "apps"))'s application files
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> (The Finder in OS X can still be a bit cranky - so it may not work there.)
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path to "apps" ought to work but it gives a silly error.
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"Folder does not exist, and you don't have access privileges to create it."
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You need to say
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path to "apps" from local domain
Yeah - you would in X.
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I don't know why you need to use 'a reference to'...
Because OMM it works without it sometimes (but not always) - and works
consistently *with* it.
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...and all those '''sss.
I counted one. You sure your eyesight's not going, John? :-p
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After all this does work in OS X -- I must have done something wrong the first
time -- it's quicker than the loop too:
It usually is.
--
Kai
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