Re: Which X versions did not have folder actions
Re: Which X versions did not have folder actions
- Subject: Re: Which X versions did not have folder actions
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:57:57 -0700
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 7:27 AM, Nigel Garvey wrote:
I believe they were reintroduced in 10.2.
Thanks, Rob. From there on up, okey dokey.
You say *re*introduced, so maybe now the question is:
what X variants do NOT have FA's available?
As far as I know, all versions of OS X prior to 10.2 are without
folder actions.
That's correct. (Presumably Rob meant that they were re-introduced
from Mac OS 9. Folder Actions are not, strictly speaking, a new
feature in Mac OS X.)
I'm not convinced they exist in 10.2.6 either. :-\ A script to quiz
System Events' 'folder actions enabled' property returns 'true'. A
script to attach a script to a folder adds some raving to a file
called 'com.apple.FolderActions.plist' in my Preferences folder. But
performing the relevant action on the folder doesn't run the script;
there's no apparent way to attach or detach actions manually; there's
no apparent way to enable or disable Folder Actions manually; and
there's sod all about folder actions in the "Help" files. Fortunately,
I've never found FA's useful anyway, but it's bemusing that people
talk about them as though they actually worked in X. Have I missed a
trick somewhere?
Quite probably. For a variety of reasons (mostly timing), most of the
"commands" for manipulating folder actions in 10.2 are actually scripts
in the system Script Menu. (This will be substantially improved in
Panther.) Also, System Events must be running for them to work, so
don't quit it.
--Chris Nebel
Apple Development Tools
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