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Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2
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Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2
  • From: Bryan Lockwood <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:31:27 -0800
  • Thread-topic: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2

Perhaps I'm just not yet steeped enough in AppleScript, but the following
snippet, taken from a recent digest, leaves me totally nonplussed.

How in the devil am I supposed to parse the line below which reads " tell
Finder window 1 to if exists then". I don't get this at all (although, of
course, I can figure out what it means, it seems to me totally
ungrammatical. Wish I had a yacc grammar for AppleScript, but I know it's
impossible.) This makes split infinitives look beautiful. Anyhow, so much
for readibility.

I'd be grateful for any further enlightenment.

Bryan


> From: "email@hidden"
> <email@hidden>
> Reply-To: <email@hidden>
> Date: Mon,  1 Jan 2007 16:07:06 -0800 (PST)
> To: <email@hidden>
> Subject: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2
>
> tell application "Finder"
> activate
> tell Finder window 1 to if exists then
> set current view to list view
> set bounds to {5, 45, 1000, 900}
> set v to toolbar visible
> set toolbar visible to not v
> set toolbar visible to v
> end if
> end tell


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