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Re: Choose location dialog - view as html
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Re: Choose location dialog - view as html


  • Subject: Re: Choose location dialog - view as html
  • From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:54:23 -0800

Simply replace the line:

display dialog "Choose Destination for backup files" ## this is
> what I need,this If statement doesn't make any sense to me

with:

choose folder with prompt "Choose Destination for backup files"

This will display the standard file dialog, allowing the user to select a
folder using a familiar interface.

In addition, when creating a new folder, use the syntax:

tell application "Finder"
make new folder at disk "Macintosh HD" with properties {name:"New Folder
Name"}
end tell

Rather than relying on creating a folder, selecting it and setting a new
name.


Unfortunately, there's no simple way of combining the two features, i.e. a
way of letting the user define where the new folder should be created,
unless you want to create a new folder within a user-selected folder,which
is possible.

Andrew
:)

On 3/18/03 4:21 PM, "Daniel" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Does anyone have some straight forward code for a choose location of folder
> dialog, i also need a new folder option on the dialoge which would return be
> similar to the first IF statement.
>
> I started writing something but got a little lost:
> tell application "Finder"
> display dialog "Backup Location" buttons {"New Folder", "Cancel",
> "Choose"}
> set rslt to result
> if button returned of rslt is "New Folder" then
> display dialog ("Folder Name - You must enter name here") default
> answer ""
> set rslt2 to result
> set nf to (text returned of rslt2)
> make new folder
> select folder "untitled folder"
> set name of selection to nf
>
> else
>
> if button returned of rslt is "Choose" then
> display dialog "Choose Destination for backup files" ## this is
> what I need,this If statement doesn't make any sense to me
> get id of selected
> set dir to result The result would be the directory to place the
> files
> set nf to item whose id is dir
> end if
> end if
>
> get id of (every item of the entire contents of folder "DR's Files")
> whose label is 6
> set recentjobs to result
> copy ((every item of the entire contents of folder "DR's Files") whose id
> is in recentjobs) to item nf
>
> end tell
>
> if anyone can help it would be appreciated
>
> Daniel
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