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: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:50:51 -0800
I've always used:
tell application "QuickTime Player.app"
...
end tell
Which seems to work. It does compile out as "tell application "QuickTime
Player", but always seems to target the correct app, even when closed and
reopened. I'm not sure if this is a fluke or by design, though.
Andrew
:)
On 3/19/03 3:08 PM, "Dan Wood" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Never mind, my fix didn't work after all! At least, not consistently.
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I'm having trouble figuring out how to get the path from the Finder
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specifically. I see "application file" in Finder's dictionary, but it
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doesn't seem to have any kind of path property that I can then pass
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along to "tell"
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Any ideas?
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[my guess -- not functional code]
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tell application "Finder"
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copy the path of application file "QuickTime Player" as string to
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thepath
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end tell
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tell application thepath
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...
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end tell
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On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 01:20 PM, Emmanuel wrote:
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> At 11:38 AM -0800 19/03/03, Dan Wood wrote:
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>> I have a very simple script that tells QuickTime player to open a
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>> movie:
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>> tell application "QuickTime Player"
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>> open location [something]
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>> end tell
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>> For some reason, on Mac OS X, this causes the *classic* version of
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>> QuickTime Player to launch, not the Mac OS X version (which lives in
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>> its standard place in the /Applications folder). If the Mac OS X
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>> version of the program is running, then it properly opens the movie.
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>> Can anybody think of a fix to this, or a workaround? I don't want to
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>> assume that QuickTime player lives in the /Applications folder, but I
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>> don't want classic to launch!
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> Get QTPlayer's path from Finder (this returns the OSX path in my
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> experience) and provide the full path to "tell application" (this
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> works in my experience).
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--
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Dan Wood
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Karelia Software, LLC
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email@hidden
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http://www.karelia.com/
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Watson for Mac OS X: http://www.karelia.com/watson/
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