Re: Keystroke question
Re: Keystroke question
- Subject: Re: Keystroke question
- From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:16:46 -0700
- Z-usanet-msgid: XID573TkwqqU1120X31
Thomas,
I had to add;
if myName does not contain “ƒ" then set the name of myFile to myName & "~ƒ" # don't add "ƒ" if it's already there
But, so far, I haven”t found a way to deal with an alias of a folder.
> On Nov 23, 2015, at 3:57:AM, Thomas Fischer <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello Robert,
>
> I just looked at it again.
> My suggestion
>>> set myFile to the selection as alias
> is a rather crude way to get at the file. The problem is that the Finder's selection always is a list, and one should take its items to work on and not try to force it into an alias, which only works if there is only one element anyway.
>
> So you might be better of with this approach:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> set myList to the selection
> if the length of myList ≠ 0 then
> repeat with myFile in myList
> if the class of myFile is folder then
> set myName to the name of myFile
> set the name of myFile to myName & " ƒ"
> end if
> end repeat
> else
> # …
> end if
> end tell
>
>
> Best regards
> Thomas
>
>
>
> Am 22.11.2015 um 19:36 schrieb Robert Poland <email@hidden>:
>
>> Thanks Thomas,
>>
>> That gets me on a working path.
>>
>>> On Nov 22, 2015, at 11:03:AM, Thomas Fischer <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Robert,
>>>
>>> would something like
>>>
>>> tell application "Finder"
>>> activate
>>> set myFile to the selection as alias
>>> set myName to the name of myFile
>>> if length of myName ≠ 0 then set the name of myFile to myName & "ƒ"
>>> end tell
>>>
>>> achieve what you're looking for?
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 22.11.2015 um 18:38 schrieb Robert Poland <email@hidden>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 22, 2015, at 10:10:AM, Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Le 2015/11/22 à 18:05, Robert Poland <email@hidden> a écrit :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The line;
>>>>>> tell application “System Events” to keystroke “f” using {option down}
>>>>>>
>>>>>> gets me the Application ‘Searching “This Mac”’ rather than typing a Option f.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What I’m trying to do is add an Option F to the name of a folder in a Finder window whose name is selected with the entry point set to the end of the name
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TIA.
>>>>>
>>>>> As you failed to tell it which process must be targeted, System Events send the keystroke to the frontmost one which appear to be the Finder.
>>>>>
>>>>> Use :
>>>>> tell application “System Events” to tell process "theProcessSupposedToTreatTheKeystroke"
>>>>> set frontmost to true
>>>>> keystroke “f” using {option down}
>>>>> end
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 22 novembre 2015 18:10:50
>>>>
>>>> Here’s the entire script. It still gets ‘Searching “This Mac”.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (* test, with Finder item selected and ready for editing name. *)
>>>> tell application “Finder”
>>>> activate
>>>> set x to selection
>>>> if length of x ≠ 0 then
>>>> tell application "System Events" to tell process "Finder"
>>>> set frontmost to true
>>>> keystroke "f" using {option down}
>>>> end tell
>>>> else
>>>> tell application "Mail" to activate
>>>> delay 1
>>>> repeat 1 times
>>>> tell application "System Events"
>>>> keystroke "f" using {option down}
>>>> end tell
>>>> end repeat
>>>> end if
>>>> end tell
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Robert Poland
>>>> Fort Collins, CO
>>>>
>>>>
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