Re: change desktop wallpaper
Re: change desktop wallpaper
- Subject: Re: change desktop wallpaper
- From: Joe <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 11:57:25 -0700
At 6:04 PM +0200 5/26/08, Julian Flach wrote:
>Hi everbody,
>
>I try to make a little script, which changes my desktop wallpaper, but I've a problem...
>
>I have the following piece of code:
>
>tell application "Finder"
> set desktop picture to {"Macintosh HD:Users:test.jpg"} as alias
>end tell
>
>But wenn I execute the code, I get the message: ' Couldn't find the file "Macintosh HD:Users:test.jpg" '. But the file exists at these place, because if I write
>
>tell application "Finder"
> open file "Macintosh HD:Users:test.jpg"
end tell
At 9:19 AM -0700 5/26/08, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>>
>
>Your script works for me. I'm using Leopard 10.5.2
>
At 9:44 AM -0700 5/26/08, Ed Stockly wrote:
>Try this:
>
>tell application "Finder"
> set desktop picture to "Macintosh HD:Users:test.jpg" as alias
>end tell
>
>With the {} you're trying to coerce a list into an alias, which doesn't always work.
>
>You may also try any of these:
>
> set desktop picture to alias "Macintosh HD:Users:test.jpg"
> set desktop picture to file "Macintosh HD:Users:test.jpg"
> set myDesktopPhoto to "Macintosh HD:Users:test.jpg" as alias
> set desktop picture to myDesktopPhoto
> set desktop picture to item 1 of{"Macintosh HD:Users:test.jpg" } as alias
>
>This one is my favorite:
>
> set desktop picture to alias "Macintosh HD:Users:test.jpg"
Not a single example given works on my G5, so I looked in the new AppleScript pages and found this.
tell application "System Events"
-- SET DESKTOP TO SPECIFIC PICTURE
tell current desktop
set picture rotation to 0 -- (0=off, 1=interval, 2=login, 3=sleep)
set picture to file "Mac HD:pteranodon-lw.jpg"
end tell
end tell
Which works fine.
Joe
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