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Re: How to restrict choose file dialog for Filemaker files?
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Re: How to restrict choose file dialog for Filemaker files?


  • Subject: Re: How to restrict choose file dialog for Filemaker files?
  • From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:07:35 -0700

At 06:13p +1000 04/20/2004, Malcolm Fitzgerald didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

At 8:26 PM -0700 18/4/04, trinko wrote:
As i was testing out a script i noticed something that seems odd. FMP
7 files, .fp7, don't seem to have a file type. I ran this script

tell application "Finder"
set x to choose file
set y to the file type of x
set z to the creator type of x
end tell

tell application "Finder" to set x to kind of (choose file)
-- taking care to choose a filemaker database

That's funny, Malcolm. Reminds me of a greeting card I once saw:

Front: Bullwinkle as Mr. Know-It-All, "How To Live To Be 100"

Inside: How to live to be 100.

First, get to 99. Then be veeeerrrry careful.


-boo :)
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