Re: pass filenames to an application
Re: pass filenames to an application
- Subject: Re: pass filenames to an application
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:11:13 +0100
On Tuesday, May 31, 2005, at 10:41 pm, dkd brain wrote:
I am trying to do something that *should* be relatively simple, I want
to grab a bunch of files (whose names start with the same string) in
an arbitrary folder and open them in BBedit....
I can figure out how to identify these files, but can't seem to pass
the filenames back to BBedit
i.e. here is the finder part
set theItem to (choose folder) as string
tell application "Finder"
select (every file of folder theItem whose name begins with "AS ")
end tell
so, my little finder snippet correctly identifies the files I want to
send to BBedit, but I can't figure out how to get these filenames into
a bbedit tell statement
i.e.
tell application BBEdit
open <filenames>
end tell
thanks for any advice....
While I don't have a copy of BBEdit currently to hand, this works for
me with Tex-Edit Plus - so I imagine something very similar should work
for you:
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set f to choose folder
tell application "Finder" to try
set l to (f's files whose name begins with "AS ") as alias list
on error
set l to (f's files whose name begins with "AS ") as alias as list
end try
tell application "Tex-Edit Plus" to open l
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kai
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