Re: Name only of app
Re: Name only of app
- Subject: Re: Name only of app
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:00:17 -0600
On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:34 PM, David Marshall wrote:
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)
It has been my experience, because I've verified it, too, that 'name
of file ...' always returns the full name of the file including the
extension. I recently commented "(Don't use 'displayed name', you
don't know where that thing has been.)". In other words, 'displayed
name' returns the extension only if you have "Show all file
extensions" checked in Finder references. And, yes you CAN change this
preference via AppleScript, but you probably shouldn't.
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