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On 10/04/2013, at 4:15 PM, Marion Dickten <email@hidden> wrote:

OK, so I have two questions:
1. What do I do wrong?

You have tried to coerce an NSURL to text. You need to get the path from the NSURL, using the path method, and then coerce the resulting NSString to text. And because path is a reserved term in AppleScript, you need to wrap it in pipes. So something like:

Set thePosixPath to item 1 of theURLs's |path|()

2. What IS class ocid? I know many programming languages and environments, and in every single one so far the important thing to know was what things really were.

An ocid item is simply an AS wrapper around an Objective-C pointer; the kptr bit is the address of the NSURL. So you can consider it to be an NSURL.

The documentation about the return value of NSOpenPanel gives me
NSURL* theDoc = [[panel URLs] objectAtIndex:0];
So it seems I have a pointer to an object of Class NSURL in my variable thePosixPath.

Right.

Is there any documentation how to get from those pesky pointers to the stuff pointed to?

You can coerce, but only from a few classes: NSString to text, NSArray to list, NSDictionary to record, and NSNumber to integer/real/boolean.

Shane Stanley <email@hidden>

References:
	>ASObjC Beginners Problem (From: Marion Dickten <email@hidden>)