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Re: "open location" osax question
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Re: "open location" osax question


  • Subject: Re: "open location" osax question
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 06:46:32 -0800

On 2/12/05 1:04 AM, "John Stewart" <email@hidden> wrote:

> It's because iTunes intercepts the "open location" command then tries to open
> it as an audio stream and silently fails to do so.
>
> From the iTunes dictionary -
>
> open location: Opens a URL to an audio stream
>     open location [string]  -- the URL to open
>
> The solution, as you've indicated, is to direct the URL to something other
> than iTunes or to remove it from within an iTunes "tell". Using the 'my'
> keyword would probably also work.

I think John may mean

    tell me to open location theURL

But I seem to remember that I found once in a similar situation that that
didn't work because it still gets compiled within an application's  tell
block. You may need to close the iTunes tell block first, or send it out to
a handler.

--
Paul Berkowitz


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