Re: ongoing Senior moments

Subject: Re: ongoing Senior moments
From: Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:49:45 +0100

Le 01/12/2014 à 14:07, Thomas Fischer <email@hidden> a écrit :

Hello,

Am 01.12.2014 um 12:53 schrieb Shane Stanley <email@hidden>:

On 1 Dec 2014, at 10:38 pm, Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden> wrote:

I'm puzzled.

Must I assume that the french system is more fair than the English one ?

No; I was using a path to a folder that didn't exist. But I still don't fancy relying on it longer-term. Especially when there's a simple alternative:

use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions

set theFolder to "~/Pictures/APOD ƒ/"
set theFolder to (current application's NSString's stringWithString:theFolder)'s stringByExpandingTildeInPath() as text
set theFile to (choose file default location (POSIX file theFolder) as alias)

while I tend to agree on the long-term reliability issue I have to confess: I don’t like ASObjC!
In an AppleScript context it sticks out like a sore thumb.
I also would be hard pressed to call
set theFolder to (current application’s NSString’s stringWithString:theFolder)'s stringByExpandingTildeInPath() as text
a simple alternative to
tell application "System Events“ to set theFolder to path of disk item theFolder
even disregarding the use clauses.

Cheers
Thomas

Hello Thomas

I brought this old thread to the surface because Yosemite introduced a change : before it,

tell application "System Events“ to set theFolder to path of disk item theFolder

failed.

We had to use a bit of trickery :

set theFolder to "" & "~/Pictures/APOD ƒ/"

set theFolder to my convertTildePathToHfs(theFolder)

set theFolder to (choose file default location alias theFolder)

on convertTildePathToHfs(aPath)

set pp to POSIX file (do shell script "echo " & quoted form of aPath)

log pp

tell application "System Events"

path of disk item (pp as text)

end tell

return result

end convertTildePathToHfs

or, if we need only one conversion we may use :

set theFolder to "" & "~/Pictures/APOD ƒ/"

POSIX file (do shell script "echo " & quoted form of theFolder)

tell application "System Events" to set theFolder to path of disk item (result as text)

set theFolder to (choose file default location alias theFolder)

As far as I know, it's only with Yosemite that the use of echo is not required.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 1 décembre 2014 15:49:39

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