Files and Aliases
Files and Aliases
- Subject: Files and Aliases
- From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:31:31 -0700
| I'm getting a little confused...
I wish to generate a file name into which I will ask TextWrangler to Save some manipulated text.
The TextWrangler .sdef says that it needs an alias for the destination for its Save operation:
save v : Save a window or document. save specifier : the object to save [to alias] : file in which to save the window’s contents ...
I can't figure out how to create an alias to a file that's not created yet.
What does work is
set OutFile to POSIX file ...(and specify the destination in a text literal)
but I want to compute the destination.
I've tried
set OutFileName to (generate the file path as text) set OutFile to alias OutFileName
but that gets the error "File wasn't found".
I also tried
set OutFileName to (generate the file path as text)
set OutFile to file OutFileName
which got the error "Can't get file".
Am I missing something obvious?
Here's my code that doesn't work:
set InFile to choose file with prompt ¬ "Select an input file." of type "scc"
tell application "Finder" set InFileName to (name of InFile) as string set OutFileName to ("" & container of InFile) ¬ & (text 1 through -5 of InFileName) ¬ & " y.scc" if exists OutFileName then display dialog ¬ "Output file y.scc already exists." & return & ¬ "Overwrite it?" buttons {"Overwrite it", "Cancel"} ¬ default button 2 if button returned of result is "Cancel" then ¬ error "Quitting now." end if end tell
log "OutFileName=" & OutFileName --> set OutFile to file OutFileName -->
Those last two lines generate (*OutFileName=MBProHD:Users:gil:Desktop: 2 Enigma wFBs y.scc*)
and
error "Can’t get file \"MBProHD:Users:gil:Desktop: 2 Enigma wFBs y.scc\"." number -1728 from file "MBProHD:Users:gil:Desktop: 2 Enigma wFBs y.scc"
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