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: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:58:45 -0700
On Sep 15, 2014, at 10:50 PM, Donald Hall < email@hidden> wrote:
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
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.
Why do you need the file path as text? Did you quit the frontmost application? If not, you can just ask for a reference to the process and set its frontmost property to true later:
tell application "System Events" to set frontProcess to the first item of (processes whose frontmost is true)
… set the frontmost of frontProcess to true
-- Chris Page The other, other AppleScript Chris
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