Re: Applescript and referring to a folder
Re: Applescript and referring to a folder
- Subject: Re: Applescript and referring to a folder
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:15:39 -0500
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Rowland McDonnell
<email@hidden> wrote:
> What I got working myself looked like this - in terms of identifying and
> selecting the file system objects I'm working with.
>
> tell application "Finder"
> if not (exists folder "TeXShop_aliases_test" of home) then
> make new folder at home with properties {name:"TeXShop_aliases_test"}
> end if
> set selected_folder to folder "TeXShop_aliases_test" of home
> end tell
>
> tell application "TeXShop"
> repeat with this_document in documents
>
> tell application "Finder"
> set this_documentF to this_document
OK, so what you have in "this_document" is a TeXShop document object.
It's not a file object, alias, or anything else having to do with the
file system. So you'll have to look at what the TeXShop dictionary
provides; you may be able to get the associated document file as an
alias directly. Maybe "set this_documentA to this_document as alias"
will even work. It just depends on TeXShop.
> tell application "Finder"
> set this_documentF to this_document
> end tell
Wrapping the assignment in a tell block doesn't change its meaning;
this_documentF and this_document wind up identical.
> set this_documentX to path of this_document as string
That is currently where you're going from TeXShop's idea of a
"document" back to something that has to do with the filesystem.
--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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