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Strange Finder behaviour...
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Strange Finder behaviour...


  • Subject: Strange Finder behaviour...
  • From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:35:06 -0600

Title: Strange Finder behaviour...
The following behaviour seems strange to me:

tell application "Finder"
      
set Window1Name to name of window 1
        repeat with aWindow in every window
        display dialog ">" & name of aWindow as string
        end repeat
     
end tell


The "display dialog" displays the name of a file in the Finder window, not the name of the Finder window.

On the second time through the repeat loop it generates an error saying "Finder got an error: Can't get name of item 2 of every window".

The following more cumbersome code operates correctly:

tell application "Finder"
      
set Window1Name to name of window 1
    
set i to 1
     
repeat
         
try
                    
name of window i
               
on error
                       
exit repeat
            
end try
                display dialog ">" & name of window i as string
                set i to i + 1
 
end repeat
     
end tell

Any explanations?

- David Crowe
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