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Re: Coerce to 'alias list'
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Re: Coerce to 'alias list'


  • Subject: Re: Coerce to 'alias list'
  • From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:18:59 -0800

At 07:17p -0700 01/20/2004, Michelle Steiner didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

On Jan 20, 2004, at 6:02 PM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

When I do

tell app "Finder"
selection as alias list
end tell

I get a list of Finder references instead of a list of aliases, and since there's no error, a try block is useless.

That's because you're using "selection"; there is a bug that doesn't let you coerce the result of "selection" into an alias list. This works:

set foo to (choose folder default location (path to desktop))
tell application "Finder"
try
set bar to items of foo as alias list
on error
set bar to items of foo as alias
end try
end tell

But you're not using selection!
How would you get a list of aliases from a selection?
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