Apple

On 08-06-18, at 08:35, David Crowe wrote:

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?

set res to {}

tell application "Finder"

repeat with w in (get every window)

set end of res to name of w

end repeat

end tell

res

Above, I use 'get' in the repeat clause. My explanation is that modern AppleScript increasingly uses Cocoa and it can't resolve things in some situations as well as a C or C++ implementation.

Maybe that's one of the hundreds of bugs that will be fixed in the "Snow Leopard" release.

Philip Aker

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