Re: GraphicConverter 'open file'
Re: GraphicConverter 'open file'
- Subject: Re: GraphicConverter 'open file'
- From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:25:27 -0700
Ah, yes!
Thanks, Shane.
--Gil
On Aug 8, 2013, at 4:07 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:
> On 09/08/2013, at 8:19 AM, Gil Dawson <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Evidently, GraphicConverter interprets "open" differently from "open file".
>>
>> I didn't see this in GraphicConverter's dictionary.
>
> What you're seeing is really nothing to do with GraphicConverter.
>
> When you ask the Finder for "every file of...", it returns a list of Finder references to the files. When you pass those references to GraphicConverter, it doesn't know what to do with them -- only the Finder does -- so they are opened by the Finder, in the equivalent of double-clicking on them.
>
> When you add "as text", the Finder coerces them to text, and GraphicConverter does the rest.
>
> Your best option is to use "set theFiles to ... as alias list". Any app should know what to do with aliases.
>
>
> --
> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
> 'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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