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Re: Creeping-featuritis
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Re: Creeping-featuritis


  • Subject: Re: Creeping-featuritis
  • From: "Michael Grant" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:45:51 -0500

What I've found more useful is grabbing a file:/// URI from *within*
the application I'm already writing in, so I can paste it in and use
it from there as a hyperlink:

tell application "System Events"
	activate
	set aFile to (choose file with prompt "Choose a file to link:")
	set fu to URL of aFile
	set the clipboard to fu
	display dialog "The file URI is on the clipboard." buttons {"OK"}
default button 1 giving up after 3
end tell

Michael

On 4/17/07, Michelle Steiner <email@hidden> wrote:
On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

>> property Default_button : "Macintosh format"
>> property display_format : "Macintosh format"
>> set the display_format to button returned of (display dialog "Which
>> format do you want the file path in?" with title "Choose display
>> format" buttons {"Cancel", "Unix format", "Macintosh format"} default
>> button Default_button)
>> set the Default_button to the display_format
>> on open {dropped_item}
>>         if the display_format is "Unix format" then set the
>> dropped_item to
>> the POSIX path of the dropped_item
>>         tell application "Finder" to set the clipboard to the
>> dropped_item
>> as text
>> end open
>
> Shouldn't the main line be in an "on run" handler?

It doesn't need to be; it works fine the way it's written.

> What's the difference between the two ways of doing it?

Nothing that I can discern.

-- Michelle

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References: 
 >Creeping-featuritis (From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Creeping-featuritis (From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Creeping-featuritis (From: "Steven D. Majewski" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Creeping-featuritis (From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Creeping-featuritis (From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Creeping-featuritis (From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>)

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