Re: can't make alias into type text
Re: can't make alias into type text
- Subject: Re: can't make alias into type text
- From: Donald Hall <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 23:55:16 -0600
Thank you, Yvan.
It was a good suggestion, and more proper as the every clause returns a list. Unfortunately I still get the same error. So I am still looking for how to convert an alias into text in Yosemite. Has anyone else done this?
Don
On Sep 16, 2014, at 1:00 PM, "koenig.yvan" < email@hidden> wrote:
Le 16/sept./2014 à 07:50, Donald Hall <email@hidden> a écrit :
Hi all,
This works in Mavericks:
tell application "System Events" to set __frontApp to (file of every process whose frontmost is true) as text
In Yosemite I get this error:
Can't make alias "disk1s3 2:Applications:Script Timer.app" of application "System Events" into type text. Number=-1700
(Script Timer was the frontmost app when the script ran.)
Does anyone have a work around for Yosemite? Is there another way to convert an alias into text?
When the script is done I want to be able to reactivate the previously frontmost application with
tell application __frontApp to activate
so I need the file path as text.
Thanks for any pointers. Googling didn’t seem to help.
Don
------------ Don Hall
Hello Don
(file of every process whose frontmost is true)
returns a list of aliases.
Try to use :
tell application "System Events" to set __frontApp to item 1 of (get file of every process whose frontmost is true) as text
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 16 septembre 2014 10:01:21
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