Re: "tell" is opening *classic* QuickTime Player, not OSX version!
Re: "tell" is opening *classic* QuickTime Player, not OSX version!
- Subject: Re: "tell" is opening *classic* QuickTime Player, not OSX version!
- From: Dan Wood <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:08:35 -0800
Never mind, my fix didn't work after all! At least, not consistently.
I'm having trouble figuring out how to get the path from the Finder
specifically. I see "application file" in Finder's dictionary, but it
doesn't seem to have any kind of path property that I can then pass
along to "tell"
Any ideas?
[my guess -- not functional code]
tell application "Finder"
copy the path of application file "QuickTime Player" as string to
thepath
end tell
tell application thepath
...
end tell
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 01:20 PM, Emmanuel wrote:
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).
--
Dan Wood
Karelia Software, LLC
email@hidden
http://www.karelia.com/
Watson for Mac OS X:
http://www.karelia.com/watson/
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