RE: Creating an empty XML file on my desktop
RE: Creating an empty XML file on my desktop
- Subject: RE: Creating an empty XML file on my desktop
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:34:44 -0700
Although the documentation suggests that open for access will create a file if none exists, I can't make that work for me either (using OS 10.4.11). So I use the Finder to make a new file and then open that file for access.
tell application "Finder"
set newXMLFile to make new file at desktop with properties {name:"images.xml"}
end tell
set newXMLAlias to newXMLFile as alias
set fileReference to open for access file newXMLAlias with write permission
...
I would also be curious to know why open for access will not create an empty file if none exists, contrary to the documentation as I understand it.
Rick Gordon
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On 4/24/08 at 7:13 PM -0700, Eric Welch wrote in a message entitled
"Creating an empty XML file on my desktop":
>I've almost got the whole thing ready to throw together in a whole Applescript. But I was wondering how to tell Applescript to create an empty text file on my desktop named "images.xml" I won't bother you with the other stuff, or Global variable declarations.
>
>What I'm using to write the information into the XML file is:
>
>set file_reference to open for access file "Ansel:Users:eric:Desktop:images.xml" with write permission
>write fullText to file_reference
>close access file_reference
>
>I've got the whole xml information (variable fullText) formatted properly to write to the empty XML file. And with a file on the desktop, it writes the information into the file just fine.
>
>But it escapes me how to create the text file in the first place before I open and write to it the information from Portfolio.
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RICK GORDON
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