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Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 11, Issue 277
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Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 11, Issue 277


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 11, Issue 277
  • From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 07:04:49 -0600

Ted,

Rather than send a 97 line script, let me ask a question.

“Obviously the script is storing the last-chosen image”; If the script (.app) has completed and quit how does it remember the last variables? And how can they be reset (nulled)?

There are no Properties, Locals or Globals declared.


On Jul 25, 2014, at 8:58:PM, Ted Wrigley <email@hidden> wrote:

> Can you provide more of the script? Obviously the script is storing the last-chosen image, but more context would be useful to determine why it’s doing that.
>
> On Jul 25, 2014, at 12:00 PM, email@hidden wrote:
>
>> From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
>> Subject: Screwy Choose file action
>> Date: July 24, 2014 at 2:19:54 PM PDT
>> To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a script that I use to set all of the Finder Desktops to the same background.
>>
>> An early line is "set ThePicture to choose file” which works fine until I edit and save the image.
>>
>> Then when I run the script again the image used is the original and not the changed/saved image.
>>
>> Is there a cure for this response other than “MAYBE" a new OS release?
>

Robert Poland
Fort Collins CO


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