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Re: Just returning Filename... not whole path
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Re: Just returning Filename... not whole path


  • Subject: Re: Just returning Filename... not whole path
  • From: Brett Conlon/HU/AU/SonyDADC <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:06:47 +1000


Hi Michelle,

I placed your code into a new script window and it does work, many thanks!

I also have this code that works:

on open (filelist)
        tell application "Finder"
                repeat with aFile in filelist
                        set fileName to name of aFile
                        display dialog "Enter Title of file: " & fileName buttons "OK" default button 1 default answer ""
                end repeat
        end tell
end open

BUT, whenever I try to to merge either your code or the code above into my "on AskTitle(aFile)" handler (desired because there are a number of conditions in there and I didn't want to have it repeated twice in the script (in both on run and on open)) it has failed with the "alias" error.

Is it not possible to do what I'm looking for inside a handler?

Sorry to be a pain about this.....

Coj



Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>


On Oct 23, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Brett Conlon/HU/AU/SonyDADC wrote:

What I'm trying to do is have the file name, of the file/s dropped onto 
the droplet, appear in the display dialog window. When a user drops 
multiple files onto the droplet and it asks them to enter the DVD title, 
if it doesn't mention the name of the file it's working on then the user 
could enter the wrong title for the wrong file.


This works:

on open (theFiles)
    tell application "Finder"
        repeat with i from 1 to length of theFiles
            display dialog "Whatever prompt goes here." default answer (name of (item i of theFiles)) as text
        end repeat
    end tell
end open


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