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Re: tell app, name in string var
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Re: tell app, name in string var


  • Subject: Re: tell app, name in string var
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 14:56:31 -0600

At 13:33 -0700 5/20/11, Christopher Nebel wrote,and I snipped:
>Strictly speaking, your script *does* have syntax problems.  (Or did, anyway.)  AppleScript changes its interpretation of identifiers (and multi-word identifiers) based on the current "tell" target, as evaluated at compile time.

Perhaps the real question is just why the syntax requires quote marks for the application name part of a tell statement.

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 >Re[2]: tell app, name in string var (From: Leonid Bogdanov <email@hidden>)
 >tell app, name in string var (From: Leonid Bogdanov <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Re[2]: tell app, name in string var (From: Zack Jarrett <email@hidden>)
 >Re[4]: tell app, name in string var (From: Leonid Bogdanov <email@hidden>)
 >Re: tell app, name in string var (From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>)

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