Re: Madness & frustration... What is a file? What is a Path?
Re: Madness & frustration... What is a file? What is a Path?
- Subject: Re: Madness & frustration... What is a file? What is a Path?
- From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:18:20 -0600
Entity Cliff Pruitt spoke thus:
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Tell Application "Whatever"
>
set homePath to path to home folder
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set theFile to homePath & ":Documents:Folder 1:Folder 2:file.txt"
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open theFile
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End Tell
tell application "Finder"
set homePath to path to home folder
set theFile to homePath & "Documents:Docname.txt" as text
open alias theFile
end tell
1)
set homePath to path to home folder
returns the path with a colon already appended, when you attach the doc path
you need to not include that character or you get 2 colons (yuk!).
2)
say this:
set theFile to homePath & "Documents:docname" as text
homePath is a list, so when you add the docpath you end up with a 2 item
list like this:
{alias "Pruitt :", "Documents:Folder 1:Folder 2:file.txt"}
so you say "as text" to convert it from a list to a string.
3)
open theFile can't open a string, so you say
open alias theFile
since Finder can only open an alias or file path.
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