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Re: AppleScript broken in 10.5.4

Subject: Re: AppleScript broken in 10.5.4
From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:20:30 -0700

On Oct 9, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:

On 10/10/08 9:08 AM, "Scott Babcock" <email@hidden> wrote:

Undocumented usage:
set fileData to (read file theFilePath as Unicode text) -- no open/close

That's not undocumented. From the latest ASLG: "It is not strictly necessary
to use open for access—all the other file commands can accept an alias; if
the file is not open, they will open it, do the operation, and then close
it."

So if it doesn't work in Studio, that's a Studio bug.

I think the AppleScript Studio term is 'read from file'. In addition 'theFilePath', if coming from a native call in Studio would be a POSIX path whereas 'read' takes an alias or an HFS path.

There are a few anomalies WRT pure vanilla AppleScript usage in Studio. One option might be to try enclosing the problem call something like:

tell AppleScript

set d to read POSIX file f

end tell

Philip Aker

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