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Re: telling icon view options
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Re: telling icon view options


  • Subject: Re: telling icon view options
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:17:59 -0700

That's not exactly the problem. For most properties, Gnarlie's two original scripts would be synonymous, but in this case "icon view options" is both a property name *and* a class name -- without the "its", AppleScript is forced to guess which one you mean, and unfortunately prefers to interpret it as a class, which is usually not what you want. There's a bug filed on this.


--Chris Nebel AppleScript Engineering

On Oct 11, 2004, at 6:05 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:

Sheesh! All that agony over a missing "its"!
I didn't realize the View Options window was "owned" by the front window.
It's window slavery is what it is...


-- Gnarlie


Entity kai spoke thus:


On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 10:08:16 -0600, Gnarlodious wrote:

So, why is it I can say:

tell application "Finder"
    tell icon view options of front window
        set icon size to 128
        set arrangement to arranged by name
    end tell
end tell

but I can't say (won't compile):

tell application "Finder"
tell front window
tell icon view options
set icon size to 128
set arrangement to arranged by name
end tell
end tell
end tell

Try this slight modification, Gnarlie:

-------------------------

tell application "Finder"
tell front window
tell its icon view options
set icon size to 128
set arrangement to arranged by name
end tell
end tell
end tell

-------------------------

Seems this form of syntax is required to get at Finder windows
properties with multiple values, such as 'icon view options'
(<arrangement>/<icon size>) and 'list view options' (<calculates folder
sizes>/<icon size>/<sort column>/<uses relative dates>).


---
kai

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