Re: different behavior between debug and release builds
Re: different behavior between debug and release builds
- Subject: Re: different behavior between debug and release builds
- From: "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:04:40 +0000
Tom Clements wrote on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:26:47 -0800 (PST):
>I'm working on an app to open user selected keynote presentations from a
>network location and manipulate them.
>
>It works okay in debug, but when I build it for release Keynote can't open
>the file path that gets passed.
>
>Here's the snip that works in debug (though I freely admit it seems a bit
>nonsensical to me):
>
> tell application "Keynote"
> set filenamePosix to POSIX path of (characters 2 thru (length
>of fileName) of fileName as string)
> set filenamePosix to (characters 2 thru (length of
>filenamePosix) of filenamePosix as string) as string
> open filenamePosix
> end tell
>
>fileName comes into this code as a Posix path (slash delimited) starting
>"\Volumes\XYZ\blah\test.key"
Does Keynote require a path or a file specification/alias? Normally, a
path isn't enough. Have you tried something like this?
set filename to "/Volumes/XYZ/blah/test.key"
set theFile to filename as POSIX file
tell application "Keynote"
open theFile
end tell
NG
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