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Re: Name only of app
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Re: Name only of app


  • Subject: Re: Name only of app
  • From: KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:03:43 +0100


On 24/01/2009, at 18:54:40, Michelle Steiner wrote:

On Jan 24, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Robert Poland wrote:

Is there a command that will get only the name and not the name and extension of an application?

tell application "Finder" to set x to name of (path to frontmost application)

tell application "Finder" to set x to the displayed name of (path to frontmost application)


Normally, ".app" is not displayed in the Finder in the name of an application; in fact, in the get info window for an application, "Hide extension" is checked and disabled, so it can't be unchecked.

Although I don't know of any situation where the extension is displayed, here is code to handle that possibility:

tell application "Finder" to set x to the displayed name of (path to frontmost application)
if text -4 through end of x is ".app" then
set x to text 1 through -5 of x
end if
x


-- Michelle

Curious,

on my machine the .app extension is always displayed.

tell application "Finder"
set n to get name of (path to frontmost application)
set x to name extension of (path to frontmost application)
end tell
if x is not "" then set n to text 1 thru -(2 + (count of x)) of n

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 24 janvier 2009 19:03:39)
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