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Hey Shane,

On Feb 19, 2011, at 04:04, Shane Stanley wrote:

On 19/2/11 8:21 PM, "Christopher Stone" <email@hidden> wrote:
One thing you might (or might not) want to consider is that in AppleScriptObjC, underscores are significant in handler names (they replace Cocoa's colons). So if you think you might be taking the plunge at some stage, use of underscores like this might be a habit to reconsider.

Thanks for the info. When the time comes I'll make the necessary changes.

Technically that's different from the shell version in that under 10.5 and later it's writing MacRoman rather than the do shell script's UTF8 (and before 10.5 the encoding will depend on the class of someText). It won't matter with "on" and "off", but it might matter with real strings.

On occasion. I have another handler for dealing with data-types:

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# WRITE DATA TO FILE HANDLER 2010-11-03 : 19:02

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on Write_To_File(someData, targetFile, startingAtPosition, dataType)

try

set resultNumber to open for access targetFile with write permission

if startingAtPosition = 0 then

set eof of resultNumber to 0

else if startingAtPosition = "EOF" then

set startingAtPosition to get eof of resultNumber

end if

write someData to resultNumber ¬

as dataType ¬

starting at startingAtPosition

close access resultNumber

on error errMsg number errNum

try

close access resultNumber

end try

display dialog "Error: " & errMsg & return & "Error Number: " & errNum

end try

end Write_To_File

Best Regards,

Chris

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