Re: duplicate
Re: duplicate
- Subject: Re: duplicate
- From: Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:17:19 +0200
Le 9 oct. 2006 à 22:11, Paul Berkowitz a écrit :
On 10/9/06 1:01 PM, "Yvan KOENIG" <email@hidden> wrote:
'duplicate' is NOT a Standard Additions command, Adam. Because
it is part of
the Standard Suite, i.e. a reserved AppleScript keyword, it will
compile
outside a tell block. But it will not execute except in a tell
block
directed to an application which has implemented it. The Finder
does
implement 'duplicate', of course, but there is no 'with
properties {}'
modifier, neither required nor optional.
Nor is there in any other
application which implements 'duplicate'.
Are you sure of that?
As I wrote in:
De : email@hidden
Objet : Rép : duplicate
Date : 9 octobre 2006 21:20:22 HAEC
À : email@hidden
System Events offers this feature.
(*
duplicate v : Copy object(s) and put the copies at a new location.
duplicate reference : the object for the command
to location reference : The location for the new object(s).
[with properties record] : Properties to be set in the new
duplicated
object(s).
*)
Right and wrong !
System Events offers the feature in its dictionary but when I try
to use it,
it seems that it freeze.
Missed that. Thanks. An innovation, unfortunately stillborn at the
moment,
you discovered.
To be sure that there is no interference between System Events and
choose
file/ choose folder, I put them out of the tell block but it fails:
set sourceFile to choose file
set destFolder to choose folder
tell application "System Events"
set n to "someName.txt"
duplicate sourceFile to destFolder with properties {name:n}
end tell
In fact, from the Script Editor, the Stop (red one) button remains
highlited.
Ah well. Another System Events thingy gone awry. Here's looking to
Leopard,
hopefully, to do it right. It will be good when it works. (Or maybe
this is
the revenge of System 7, punishing the Apple devs for trying to
change an
age-old syntax of something in the Standard Suite...)
--
Paul Berkowitz
Hello
As you are more fluent than I am with english, may you post a bug
report about this oddity ?
I know that Chris Nebel read this forum but I also know that a report
is the best way … to waiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit for a reaction ;-)
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