Re: Launching TextEdit with a TEXT document
Re: Launching TextEdit with a TEXT document
- Subject: Re: Launching TextEdit with a TEXT document
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:23:19 -0800
At 07:08p -0800 02/16/2004, Craig Hoyt didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
At 17:41:09 -0800 02/16/2004, Walter Ian Kaye
<email@hidden> wrote:
Well there's another way you could do it:
tell app "Finder" to open file filePath using application file id "text"
You did verify that 'filePath' contains the correct path to the file, yes?
TextEdit is an OSX app I wasn't aware that it had a creator type.
For those which don't, you can use the Bundle Identifier in the same way. :-)
I'll give it a shot. Again I state I have no problem launching
TexyEdit just opening my document after it's launched. Yes I have
verified that filePath is the full file path and is correct.
And again Walter wrote:
Hey, wait a sec.
> filePath is a string containing the complete file path
surrounded by quotes.
Surrounded by quotes???
Yes like this: "Macintosh HD:Desktop Folder:My Folder:My File".
Maybe surrounded by quotes was a bit cryptic, maybe I should have
used some other description but I'm not sure how to phrase that. The
examples I saw used <open file "full path names" so that's how I
built the var. This same var works for a slightly different script
when my app is run in classic mode to open SimpleText and it works
perfectly.
OK, it just sounded like maybe you had embedded quotes within it, but
if that were the case then it wouldn't have worked in the other case
where it did. :)
At 03:48p +1100 02/17/2004, Shane Stanley didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
On Feb 17, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Craig Hoyt wrote:
like this: "Macintosh HD:Desktop Folder:My Folder:My File".
There is no folder called "Desktop Folder" on the root disk under
OS X. Are you sure your path is correct?
Actually there is such a folder, hidden tho' it be.
Do a Get Info on your "Desktop (Mac OS 9)" folder alias to see.
-boo
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