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Re: Showing a Package's Contents - SOLVED
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Re: Showing a Package's Contents - SOLVED


  • Subject: Re: Showing a Package's Contents - SOLVED
  • From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:08:29 +0100

on 31/3/05 3:39 pm, Axel Luttgens at email@hidden wrote:

> In fact, Jonathan's question raised a more general one:
> - if a STOCK and/or WELL BEHAVED application's AScripting model doesn't
> provide a way to perform a given action, one could try the UI scripting,
> - but often, the UI scripting way SEEMS to fail with all those pop-up menus
> and those more or less esoteric things
> So, I was (and still am) interested to know whether I just don't understand UI
> scripting. ;-)

Doh!

You can do it easily with application bundles and vanilla AS:

    set foo to choose file
    tell application "System Events" to open foo's folder

But, it doesn't work with an mbox... Yet...

--
Martin Orpen


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