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Re: "tell" is opening *classic* QuickTime Player, not OSX version!
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Re: "tell" is opening *classic* QuickTime Player, not OSX version!


  • Subject: Re: "tell" is opening *classic* QuickTime Player, not OSX version!
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:20:58 +0100

At 11:38 AM -0800 19/03/03, Dan Wood wrote:
I have a very simple script that tells QuickTime player to open a movie:

tell application "QuickTime Player"
open location [something]
end tell

For some reason, on Mac OS X, this causes the *classic* version of QuickTime Player to launch, not the Mac OS X version (which lives in its standard place in the /Applications folder). If the Mac OS X version of the program is running, then it properly opens the movie.

Can anybody think of a fix to this, or a workaround? I don't want to assume that QuickTime player lives in the /Applications folder, but I don't want classic to launch!

Get QTPlayer's path from Finder (this returns the OSX path in my experience) and provide the full path to "tell application" (this works in my experience).

Emmanuel
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