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Application name length


  • Subject: Application name length
  • From: "William M. Smith" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 15:09:58 -0600
  • Thread-topic: Application name length

Our developers at work are beginning scripting Acrobat 7.0 on Mac OS X
10.3.9 and have noticed that the name of the application is getting changed
in script editor. They enter:

    tell application "Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0.app"
      do something
    end tell

and when they compile, they receive

    tell application "Adobe Acrobat Profess#681A6"
      do something
    end tell

Shortening the name of the application corrects this issue (the shortened
name stays as is) but I've already deployed Acrobat 7.0 on several other
machines and I want to avoid the workaround of having to change the app name
on these few machines.

Some questions:

1. Is this a limitation of Applescript itself or with Script Editor? If I
point my developers to something different, such as Smile, will the
application name compile correctly?

2. If we can't avoid this renaming, will this new "#681A6" name remain
constantly across all of my 10.3.9 machines?

3. Or am I missing something really obvious to avoid this?

Any insight is appreciated!

bill
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William M. Smith

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