Re: curious bug
Re: curious bug
- Subject: Re: curious bug
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:35:45 +0100
This from Michelle Steiner - dated 17/10/03 2:37 am:
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I wrote the following script, accidentally omitting "text returned of"
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The file name in the result is a dot, a capital O with a circumflex, a
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capital Y with an umlaut, and a lower-case r.
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On the desktop, it's two Chinese characters (Kanji or Hanja, depending
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on whether you name them in Japanese or Korean).
I reported a similar thing a while back (pre OS X 10.2), after omitting
'text returned of' from a script that adds a Finder comment to the file of
an open document from within the app that the document is being edited with.
Like this:
--========================================
tell application "Script Debugger" --(or BBEdit, or Tex Edit Plus, etc)
set theFile to file of window 1
set theComment to (display dialog "Enter comment..." default answer "")
end tell
tell application "Finder" to set comment of theFile to theComment
--========================================
(Line 3 should have begun "set theComment to the text returned of...".)
Instead of erroring, the script set the file's comment to a long string of
Chinese characters, which Finder didn't seem entirely happy about - when
viewing the erroneous comment by clicking the disclosure triangle in the
file's info window there was a significant delay before the comment
displayed.
(Incidentally, Michelle, I find it hugely reassuring to know it's not just
me that makes these kind of dumb mistakes. :-))
Regards
Nick
pp Mr Tea
--
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