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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: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:33:39 +0100
At 9:57 PM +0100 20/01/04, Jean-Baptiste wrote:
>Why can't I coerce a list of a single item that is a file reference to an 'alias list' ?
>
>EG :
>
>Folder 1 contains 1 (one) folder
>
>set theRootFolder to alias "Jean-Baptiste:Desktop:Folder1:"
>tell application "Finder" to (get every folder of folder theRootFolder) as alias list --> fails

This really originates in a bug of AppleScript, where it won't let the program return a one-item list.

Emmanuel
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