Re: Application name length
Re: Application name length
- Subject: Re: Application name length
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:54:44 -0500
"William M. Smith" wrote:
> 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
[...]
>
> 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!
It looks as though you are using the Classic script editor.
This happens to me only with Adobe ImageReady, because I use the Classic
version of that software. IR will not save long names (prevented from the
Save box), but if I try to open a file that I've manually renamed to a
length greater than Classic/IR can support, then I get the same kind of
dynamic shortening.
No, the number is _not_ the same each time the file is opened, so I would
not expect that you could rely on that.
--
Gary
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