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Re: alis ???

Subject: Re: alis ???
From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 00:36:06 +0100

Simon Forster wrote on Mon, 16 May 2005 16:24:17 +0100:

>Trying to get the class of an object in Tiger using System Events:
>
>tell application "System Events" to set classOfToProcess to class of
>toProcess
>display dialog classOfToProcess
>
>And get a result of alis!?
>
>Ho hum. New one on me.

It's what happens when you use 'display dialog' directly on the class of
an object. For the result I think you were expecting, you have to coerce
the class explicitly to string first:

  display dialog (classOfToProcess as string)

NG
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