Re: How to choose a specific scripting addtion's terms
Re: How to choose a specific scripting addtion's terms
- Subject: Re: How to choose a specific scripting addtion's terms
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:44:18 -0700
Oh. You're using a deprecated system. OK. ;-)
The Satimage osax for OS X (or at least the current version 2.5.9) no longer
has that command, which is not really necessary with the Finder's
application file id, I guess.
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Paul Berkowitz
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From: "Grimm, Kenneth" <email@hidden>
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:30:44 -0400
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To: AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>, 'Paul Berkowitz'
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<email@hidden>
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Subject: RE: How to choose a specific scripting addtion's terms
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Satimage version 1.8.5, OS 9.2.2
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> From its dictionary: (script debugger)
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path to application: find an application file (or application files) given a
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creator type in a given volume (defined in: Satimage)
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path to application string -- the creator type, a 4-characters string
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[in alias] -- a path to a volume
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[list all boolean] -- default false : "path to application"
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returns the most recently modified application.
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Result: anything -- the path to the application or a list of paths if "list
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all" is true
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So with this present, "path to application" took precedence over "path to
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application support" for some reason. I placed the parens around
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"application support" as suggested and it worked just fine.
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Thanks everyone.
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Ken
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> From: Paul Berkowitz
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 5:38 PM
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> To: AppleScript-Users
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> Subject: Re: How to choose a specific scripting addtion's terms
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> Which version of Satimage is this? I don't see a 'path to application' in
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> mine (4.5.9) and I have no problem with 'path to application support' in
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> any
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> script editor. Once it compiles correctly it will run correctly anywhere
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> that has Standard Additions, with or without any Satimage version present,
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> but with 'run script' it will be re-compiled on the fly, perhaps with
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> unexpected results.
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> --
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> Paul Berkowitz
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>> From: "Grimm, Kenneth" <email@hidden>
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>> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:24:21 -0400
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>> To: <email@hidden>, 'Walter Ian Kaye'
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>> <email@hidden>
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>> Subject: RE: How to choose a specific scripting addtion's terms
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>> SLAP!
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>> I must'a tried everything (likes using the pipes, etc) except that...
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>> Doh!
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>> Next round's on me..... Ken
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>>> From: Walter Ian Kaye
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>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 5:00 PM
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>>> To: email@hidden
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>>> Subject: Re: How to choose a specific scripting addtion's terms
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>>> At 04:32p -0400 07/13/2004, Grimm, Kenneth didst inscribe upon an
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>>> electronic papyrus:
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>>>
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>>>> OS 9.2.2
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>>>> I want to use "path to application support" defined in Standard
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>>> Additions,
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>>>> but the Satimage OSAX "path to application" get used instead, making
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> the
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>>>> "support" part of "path to application support" a variable instead of
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> a
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>>>> command.
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>>>> How do I write this so I use the Standard Additions' instead of
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>>> Satimage's?
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>>> You're gonna slap yourself on the head for this one...
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>>> path to (application support)
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