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Re: Issue with process names
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Re: Issue with process names


  • Subject: Re: Issue with process names
  • From: Joe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:55:56 -0800

On Feb 5, 2012, at 8:50 PM, Christopher Stone wrote:

One possible way around the issue:

tell application "Finder"
set bundleID to bundle identifier of processes whose has scripting terminology is true ¬
and name contains "BBEdit"
end tell

using terms from application "BBEdit"

if bundleID is not {} then
set bundleID to item 1 of bundleID

tell application id bundleID
set newDoc to make new text document
set text of newDoc to "This is a test!"
end tell

else
# Fail
return false
end if

end using terms from

You've rebooted and tested again to confirm your results?

Please take the time to file a bug if you haven't already done so.

I haven't monkeyed with tell application id bundle-id for quite some time, and it amazes me that it's necessary to include using terms from to make it compile the app's terminology.  I would think by now it would be a fully synonymous with tell app "app-name".

Hi Chris,

I played around with this after you posted.

The following seems to work OK without "using terms from"

OS X 10.7.3

tell application "Finder"
set bundleID to bundle identifier of processes whose has scripting terminology is true ¬
and name contains "BBEdit"
end tell

set mybbedit to item 1 of bundleID
tell application id mybbedit
activate
make new document
end tell

Perhaps I'm reading in too much. I looked at Sal's site for the terminology to get the above,

Joe
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 >Issue with process names (From: David Crowe <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Issue with process names (From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>)

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