Re: Opening TextEdit with a document
Re: Opening TextEdit with a document
- Subject: Re: Opening TextEdit with a document
- From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:41:57 -0800
On 2/15/04 2:48 PM, "Craig Hoyt" <email@hidden> wrote:
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filePath is a string
And therein lies your problem. You're asking TextEdit to open a string,
which makes no sense. You need to coerce the string to a file reference.
Fortunately this is easy to do:
tell application "TextEdit"
open file filePath
end tell
Andrew
:)
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Hi All,
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I very new at this so bear with my simplistic question. I'm developing an
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application and in it I allow a TEXT document to be opened in TextEdit
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using an AppleScript. This is my Script:
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with timeout of 5 seconds
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tell application "TextEdit"
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activate
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open filePath
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end tell
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end timeout
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filePath is a string containing the complete file path surrounded by
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quotes. TextEdit is launched with a new untitled document and sent to
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frontmost app but my document file is not opened. If the TextEdit app is
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already running no document is opened and TextEdit is not sent forward. I
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suspect the problem is in my filePath var but not sure what I doing here.
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My application is a Carbon application and runs in OSX and Classic
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environments. My script for the Classic environment is much more verbose
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but opens SimpleText and my document file as I want. In OSX the above
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script fails to open the document file.
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Thanks for any help someone might provide in solving this issue.
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Craig
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