Re: Name comparison taking a long time
Re: Name comparison taking a long time
- Subject: Re: Name comparison taking a long time
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:45:48 -0400
Brilliant! Thanks. I didn't know that you could use negative numbers
to index into a list of items.
- Rick
Emmanuel wrote:
At 10:15 AM -0400 8/16/07, email@hidden wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a simple Applescript attached below. It uses "choose folder"
to prompt the user to select a folder named foo. If the user clicks
on a folder named foo, a message is quickly displayed saying so.
However, if the user clicks a folder with a different name, for some
reason that dialog informing them of this takes much longer. It also
seems to take even longer if the wrong folder is selected near the top
level of the disk. For example, I use the "Developer" folder at the
top level of my "Macintosh HD" for testing.
Any ideas why there is a delay, and how I can minimize this delay?
set theInfo to info for FooFolder
This is the culprit. Getting "info for" implies computing the total size
of the folder (since "info for" returns, among other stuff, the item's
size.)
So, you have to use another way of finding the folder's name. Such as:
------ untested
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
set thename to item -2 of text items of (FooFolder as text)
Emmanuel
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