Re: OS 9 or Classic, that's the question :-)
Re: OS 9 or Classic, that's the question :-)
- Subject: Re: OS 9 or Classic, that's the question :-)
- From: Michael Slomski <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:35:51 +0100
Hello Kat,
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While I can't vouch for the safety of using the Finder's version, Michael,
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you could probably condense your approach. If you also reset the TIDs ("set
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AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims"), your routine would total
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about 15 lines. But there could be a few ways to shorten it...
I comes later, behind the the sample lines :-)
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I assume you're replacing the decimal point with a comma to suit your
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System's numbering format - although that also means that your script may
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not travel too well. (As it stands, it doesn't work on my British system -
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without additional trapping.) In fact, I wonder if TIDs and string-to-number
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coercions are really necessary here at all.
Here in germany
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set myVersion to version
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set myVersion to (last word of myVersion)
Will get "10.3" and this won't make it to a number, so first the dot must
replaced. Not internationally safe :-( but for me it has worked so far.
I'm sure, the next version will take all suggestions from this list and will
a lot more fun :-)
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You might, for example, get away with something like this instead:
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tell app "Finder" to set OS9 to (get version)'s word - 1's item 2 is "."
Interesting, with OS X 10.3 it will return false. I will check it later,
what it will return with OS 9 (no classic)
Regards
Michael
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