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Re: Tell Statement Problem


  • Subject: Re: Tell Statement Problem
  • From: Bastard Child <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:44:45 -0800

Thanks Everyone,

Your information has fixed my problem.


--
The Bastard Child Has Spoken




On 1/28/06, Michelle Steiner <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2006, at 1:04 AM, Bastard Child wrote:
>
> > I've got some code here that doesn't appear to be working, and I can't
> > figure out why. The closest thing I can come up with, is that the
> > "tell" statement doesn't like the "theFolder" variable. Whenever I run
> > the code in the Script Editor, I draw the following error:
> >
> > Finder got an error: Expected a reference.
> >
> > Here's the code:
> >
> > -----
> > set theFolder to choose folder
> >
> > parseFolder(theFolder)
> >
> > on parseFolder(aFolder)
> >       tell application "Finder"
> >               set theNumItems to number of items in aFolder
> >       end tell
> > end parseFolder
> > -----
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> You need "count", not "number"  This syntax works:
>
> set theItems to items of aFolder
> set theNumItems to count theItems
>
> So does this, even though it doesn't seem to make sense
>
> set theNumItems to count item aFolder
>
> -- Michelle
>
> --
> "To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the
> whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-
> day hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a
> securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what
> would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that
> part of the world into even greater instability."
>   - George H.W. Bush
>
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