Re: alias or not an alias

Subject: Re: alias or not an alias
From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:33:56 -0500

On Aug 29, 2011, at 18:34, Luther Fuller wrote:

I used a diagnostic to determine that contentsSource was indeed an alias, therefore it should work without error elsewhere in my script in a 'tell Finder' block. But it doesn't. So I added ...

... as alias

to the end of the line, above for no good reason. No more errors!

But the dictionary says that 'make new ...' returns an alias.

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Hey Luther,

Where are you getting 'make new' and that it returns an alias?

The verb in the Finder is 'make'. The result is a Finder reference and has been for as long as I can remember.

Script Debugger Dictionary Viewer:

make (verb)Make a new element (from Standard Suite)

function syntax

set theResult to make new type class ¬
     at insertion location ¬
     to reference ¬
     with properties record

result

reference to the new object(s)

set f to alias "Thor:Users:chris:test_directory:"

tell application "Finder"

set newFolder to make new folder at f with properties {name:"Test_Folder"}

end tell

--> folder "Test_Folder" of folder "test_directory" of folder "chris" of folder "Users" of startup disk of application "Finder"

I nearly always convert Finder references to aliases. They're safer, ubiquitously accepted, and faster.

Best Regards,

Chris

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