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Re: How to adjust this script to work on Snow Leopard?
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Re: How to adjust this script to work on Snow Leopard?


  • Subject: Re: How to adjust this script to work on Snow Leopard?
  • From: Bert Groeneveld <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:06:30 +0100

Hello, tried both options (from Yvan and J. Stewart) both without succes. Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance. Bert.

On 22 nov 2010, at 13:46, J. Stewart wrote:

> On 11/22/10 at 5:29 AM, KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden> spake thusly:
>
>>> This (part of a) script only runs on 10.5.8 and not on 10.6. Could anyone tell how to adjust this snippet to make it compatible with 10.6?
>>>  tell application "Open_ProductGroups_Server_v01" of machine "eppc://applescript:email@hidden"
>>>      set ProductGroups to open_TXT_File()
>>> end tell
>>>     - - - - - - - Background info: - - - - - - -
>>>  The (Intel) Mac with IP address 192.168.10.21 still has Mac OS 10.5.8 Server installed. I didn't change anything on that Mac.
>>> The application "Open_ProductGroups_Server_v01" is a simple (stay open) applescript that runs on the server and contains the following handler:
>>>  on open_TXT_File()
>>> 	set myFile to "Fotostudio-ServerDisk:B:BIJENKORF TEST MAP BERT AFBLIJVEN:Productgroups:ProductGroups.txt"
>>> 	set myTXT_File to open for access myFile
>>> 	set ProductGroups to read myTXT_File
>>> 	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "
>>> "
>>> 	set ProductGroups to every text item of ProductGroups
>>> 	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
>>> 	close access myTXT_File
>>> 	return ProductGroups
>>> end open_TXT_File
>>>
>>
>>
>> I guess that the culprit is the handler.
>>
>> set myTXT_File to open for access file myFile
>>
>> would be better.
>>
>> I would edit the handler this way :
>>
>> on open_TXT_File()
>> 	set myFile to "Fotostudio-ServerDisk:B:BIJENKORF TEST MAP BERT AFBLIJVEN:Productgroups:ProductGroups.txt"
>> 	set myTXT_File to open for access file myFile
>> 	set ProductGroups to read myTXT_File
>> 	close access myTXT_File
>>
>> 	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "
>> "
>> 	set ProductGroups to every text item of ProductGroups
>> 	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
>> 	return ProductGroups
>> end open_TXT_File
>>
>> which close the text file immediately when there is no need to leave it open.
>
> There is no reason to manually open and close a text file just to read it. This should work just fine and be slightly quicker.
>
> on open_TXT_File()
> 	set ProductGroups to read file "Fotostudio-ServerDisk:B:BIJENKORF TEST MAP BERT AFBLIJVEN:Productgroups:ProductGroups.txt"
>
> 	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "
> "
> 	set ProductGroups to every text item of ProductGroups
> 	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
> 	return ProductGroups
> end open_TXT_File
>
> JBS
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