Re: String works, variable that's a string does not.
Re: String works, variable that's a string does not.
- Subject: Re: String works, variable that's a string does not.
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:43:21 -0700
On Apr 28, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote:
Howcum?
Because text returned of a dialog is a unicode string, and the file
type and creators require plain old ASCII strings.
"Set text_returned to text_returned as string" will not do it, even
though it appears to make the change. here is a work around that
works:
display dialog "What would you like to set the selected files creator
to?" default answer "DmWr" buttons {"OK", "Cancel"} default button 1
copy the result as list to {text_returned, button_pressed}
set text_returned to text_returned
set temp to ""
repeat with loop from 1 to length of text_returned
set temp to temp & (ASCII character of (ASCII number of character loop
of text_returned))
end repeat
set text_returned to temp
tell application "Finder"
if button_pressed is "OK" then
set these_items to the selection
repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
set this_item to (item i of these_items) as alias
set this_info to info for this_item
--set myPath to (this_item as string)
--set targetFile to myPath
set (creator type of file this_item) to (text_returned)
end repeat
end if
end tell
-- Michelle
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