Re: Colonic irrigation (OS X)
Re: Colonic irrigation (OS X)
- Subject: Re: Colonic irrigation (OS X)
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:05:53 -0800
On Feb 11, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Mr Tea wrote:
Either I'm confused about colons, or AppleScript is, or we both are....
tell application "Finder"
activate
open item ((path to desktop folder as string) & "F1:F2:")
end tell
That's straightforward enough. If there's a folder on my desktop
called 'F1', containing a folder called 'F2', the above script will
open it. However, if I replace the folder 'F2' with a file of the
same name, the script will open that instead, without a whisper of
complaint.
Similarly, if I leave the final colon off the file/folder path, AS
will indiscriminately open F2 regardless of whether it's a file or a
folder.
The magic formula for making AS 'colon-blind' seems to lie in the
outer set of brackets in the 'open' line. When these are removed, the
expected error messages are generated if the presence or absence of a
final colon is inappropriate.
Bug or feature?
I don't think you read that error closely enough. If you leave off the
outer parentheses, you change the ordering of the expression to open
(item (path to desktop folder as string)) & ("F1:F2:"). In other
words, AppleScript evaluates 'item "path:to:Desktop"', comes back with
a Finder object specifier, tries to concatenate that with a string, and
boggles. Adding or removing colons at this point won't help.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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