Re: Creating a folder on the desktop (recap)
Re: Creating a folder on the desktop (recap)
- Subject: Re: Creating a folder on the desktop (recap)
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:02:49 -0400
"Christopher Nebel" wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
>> I'm guessing that while there are constructs in AS to get the
>> user's home directory etc, there's no way to read arbitrary
>> environment variables directly; you have to go through the shell with
>> something like (do shell script "echo \"$BLAH\"") ... is that true?
>
> No. "system attribute" was extended some time ago to look for
> environment variables if the Gestalt selector lookup fails:
>
> system attribute "HOME" --> "/Users/me"
> system attribute "SHELL" --> "/bin/sh"
That's good to know, Chris. Thanks for pointing that out.
Mark, in case you are interested, for about 3 weeks I've been experimenting
with a freeware called 'RCEnvironment', which is from Rubicode. It's a user
preference pane which allows the making, setting and getting of environment
variables.
I've found a number of uses for it, and so...passing along.
<http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCEnvironment/>
--
Gary
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