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Seems like I've been here before. List caught me again.

On Dec 8, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

On Dec 8, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Robert Poland wrote:

I have a script that uses the following;

tell application "Finder"
delay 10
set selected_Item to selection
delay 10
display dialog "" & selected_Item
end tell

If I open, for example, the Applications folder and select any item then run the script "selected_Item" is empty. If I run the script again all is well.

That's because selected_Item is a list.
This WILL work ...

tell application "Finder"
set selList to selection
if (count items of selList) ≠ 1 then return
set selItem to (item 1 of selList) as alias
display dialog selItem as text
end tell

Robert Poland - Fort Collins, CO

References:
	>Is finder brain dead? (From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Is finder brain dead? (From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>)