Peculiar Alias Behavior...
Peculiar Alias Behavior...
- Subject: Peculiar Alias Behavior...
- From: Peter Bunn <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 13:34:01 -0500
This one is driving me quite crazy...
I'm on 10.1.4, and wondering if this bug (?) has been fixed in later
versions of X.
If I make an alias to (e.g.) a packaged application by
command/option/drag to the desired destination, the app is launched via
script _only_ if the '.app' extension is used. If I make an alias with a
droplet (as below), the app responds (by script) _only_ to the 'simple'
or displayed name of the app... without extension.
I'd like to think I'm doing something patently stupid since that would be
no surprise, but at the moment I'm thinking it may not be me (this time).
I have reasons to be scripting the app via alias... rather than at its
own location... but those reasons don't appear to be relevant here.
Any help?
Thanks.
Peter B.
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on open This_Item
tell application "Finder"
make new alias to This_Item at folder "Test" of the desktop
end tell
end open
--
tell application "Finder"
open alias "MacHD:Users:username:Desktop:Test:TextEdit.app"
--open alias "MacHD:Users:username:Desktop:Test:TextEdit"
end tell
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