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Re: Is: Setting File & Creator Type access error
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Re: Is: Setting File & Creator Type access error


  • Subject: Re: Is: Setting File & Creator Type access error
  • From: Johnny AppleScript <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:25:56 -0600
  • Thread-topic: Is: Setting File & Creator Type access error

On 7/1/09 10:53 PM, "Philip Aker" <email@hidden> wrote:

> What is bad here is that between System Events, info for, and Finder, there
> are different non-transferrable terms for 'creator type', when in fact they
> all refer to the same 32 bits of the low level FSCatalogInfo.finderInfo

And while you all have fun chewing on that, I'm merely pleased this works,
too:

tell application "Finder" to tell (document file f) to set {file type,
creator type} to {"DISH", "DHAT"}

As Henny Youngman said, if you can't say it in one line...

JA


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