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Le 11/03/2014 à 21:31, Gil Dawson <email@hidden> a écrit :

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

OutFileName is a string

References:
	>Files and Aliases (From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>)