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: KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:54:28 +0200
Le 17 sept. 2014 à 14:15, Shane Stanley < email@hidden> a écrit :
On 16 Sep 2014, at 3:50 pm, Donald Hall < email@hidden> wrote: 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
My understanding is that this sort of thing is possibly still covered by NDA, so developer forums might be the place to discuss it. However, it looks to me that such a problem might be the result of System Events defining its own alias class. Why it would choose to use its own class in one place and AppleScript's elsewhere is beyond me, but then I'm not sure having a class called alias in System Events is particularly helpful anyway. My suggestion is that your first stop should be bugreport.apple.com ASAP. My second suggestion would be to try this: tell application "System Events" to set __frontApp to (file of process 1 whose frontmost is true) as alias as text -- Shane Stanley < email@hidden> < www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
Thanks Shane. It works.
tell application "System Events" to set __frontApp to (file of process 1 whose frontmost is true) returns : alias "Western Caviar:Applications:Utilities:Script Editor.app:" of application "System Events"
while
tell application "System Events" to set __frontApp to (file of process 1 whose frontmost is true) as alias returns : alias "Western Caviar:Applications:Utilities:Script Editor.app:"
and at last, converting a standard alias into text behaves flawlessly.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 17 septembre 2014 14:54:23
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