Re: Name only of app
Re: Name only of app
- Subject: Re: Name only of app
- From: David Marshall <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:34:23 -0500
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:54:31 -0700, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Jan 24, 2009, at 1:55 PM, David Marshall wrote:
Instead of using "displayed name" and testing for the presence of
the ".app" extension, why not just use "name" and strip the
extension?
tell application "Finder" to set x to characters 1 thru -5 of ¬
((name of (path to frontmost application)) as text) as text
Because not all applications have the extension as part of the name.
None of the Adobe products in my Applications folder have it, for
instance.
That's interesting. You mean if you do a Get Info on one of those
Adobe apps and click the Name & Extension disclosure triangle, ".app"
doesn't appear? Or is it just that Finder doesn't return the extension
when you tell it to get the app's name?
I searched in vain in my own /Applications for an ".app"less
application, using the following script:
set theFolder to path to applications folder from system domain
tell application "Finder"
set theList to (name of every file of theFolder)
set theExclusions to {}
repeat with thisItem in theList
if text -4 thru -1 of thisItem is not ".app" then
set end of theExclusions to thisItem
end if
end repeat
end tell
theExclusions --> {}
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